William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”
Reputation Quotes
“Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.”
Simplicity Quotes
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
Sin Quotes
“Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways”
Sin Quotes
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
Suffering Quotes
“'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”
Temptation Quotes
“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”
Temptation Quotes
“It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Thinking Quotes
“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”
Thought Quotes
“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”
Time Quotes
“Time is the justice that examines all offenders.”
Time Quotes
“When most I wink, then do my eyes best see”
Vision Quotes
“Good wine needs no bush”
Wine Quotes
“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
Wisdom Quotes
“The lady doth protest too much, me thinks”
Women Quotes
“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain”
Words Quotes
“All is well ended, if the suit be won.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at epilogue), (altered)
“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Countess of Rossillion at I, i)
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
“We must every one be a man of his own fancy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, i)
“The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii)
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Second Lord at IV, iii)
“Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at V, iii)
“What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at I, ii)
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