William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“The fire i' the flint Shows not till it be struck.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of TImon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
“Men shut their doors against the setting sun.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
“O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
“Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Flavius at II, ii)
“Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (First Senator at III, v)
“Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt, Since riches point to misery and contempt?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Flavius at IV, ii)
“What an alteration of honour has Desperate want made!”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Flavius at IV, iii)
“Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Boyet at V, ii)
“Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth)
“So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, Discomfort swells.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Sergeant at I, ii)
“Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, iii)
“Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Banquo at I, iii)
“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
“This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredience of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
“We but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
“Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me?”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at II, ii)
“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
“Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
“Things at the worst will cease, or e'en climb upward To what they were before.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Ross at IV, ii)
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
“What's done cannot be undone.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at V, i)
“It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at V, v)
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at V, v)
“In time the rod Becomes more mocked than feared.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, iii)
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.”
Proverbs Quotes
Source: Measure for Measure (Lucio at I, iv)
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