William Shakespeare Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

2,311 Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
Ignorance Quotes
“Ingratitude is monstrous”
Ingratitude Quotes
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
Innocence Quotes
“Joy delights in Joy”
Joy Quotes
“The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try”
Juries and judges Quotes
“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”
Kindness Quotes
“Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure”
Leisure Quotes
“To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.”
Literary Quotes
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
Losing Quotes
“If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”
Major holidays Quotes
“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”
Major holidays Quotes
“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”
Medicine Quotes
“The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope”
Medicine Quotes
“The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.”
Mercy Quotes
“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”
Mercy Quotes
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
Nature Quotes
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
Painting Quotes
“Soft pity enters an iron gate.”
Pity Quotes
“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”
Praise Quotes
“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow”
Providence Quotes
“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
Prudence Quotes
“Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know”
Questioning Quotes
“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”
Reflection Quotes
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
Relationships Quotes
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
Religion Quotes
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