William Shakespeare Quotes

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Lost, Reputation, False

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare

Answer, Please, Bound

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Laughter, Old, Wrinkles

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare

Heart, Ask, Knock

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

Experience, Travel, Sad

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love, Alteration, Alters

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

Men, Best, Forget

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

Sad, Play, Hold

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

Trust, Eye, Agent

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare

God, Another, Face

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Enough, Rich, Poor

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

Children, May, Eyes

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

Keep, Mad, Sweet

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare

Country, Whose, Traveler

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Honor, Far

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

Nature, Whole, Makes

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

Age, Before, Behind

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Fear, Care, Done

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Give, Put, Immortal

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Wasted, Waste

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

Soul, Wit, Brevity

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

Men, Live, Country

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

Time, Speak, Grow

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: April 26, 1564

Died: April 23, 1616

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