William Shakespeare Quotes

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

New Year's, Hope, Down

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, Evil

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

Mind, Guilty, Suspicion

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

Good, Bad, Nothing

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

Happiness, Through, Eyes

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Father's Day, Wise, Father

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Rose, Call

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

Good, Bad, Overflow

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love, Made, Smoke

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

Life, Dull, Tedious

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

Honesty, Rich, Legacy

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

Romantic, Good, Night

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Love, Mind, Joy

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

Women, Men, Strength

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Good, Far, Naughty

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

Age, Cannot, Youth

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Good, Win, Lose

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

True, Self, Above

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love, Good, Sought

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Words, Thoughts, Heaven

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

Makes, Sound, Empty

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

Courage, Love, Heart

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

Worse, Fault, Excuse

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Heart, Face, False

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: April 26, 1564

Died: April 23, 1616

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