William Shakespeare Quotes

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

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

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

Fear, Care, Done

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Husbands, Maids

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Faith, Great, Men

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

Dream, Shadow, Ambitious

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

Angels, Sin, Fell

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance, Darkness

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

Done, Joy, Soul

What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

Soul, Honor, Sin

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Enjoy, Content, Seldom

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

Sympathy, Single, Sorrows

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

Heart, Words, Matter

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

Gods, Flies, Wanton

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Fall, Rise, Virtue

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

Words, Vain, Seldom

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Yourself, Hot, Heat

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

Good, Men, Poor

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

Word, Action, Suit

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: April 26, 1564

Died: April 23, 1616

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