William Shakespeare Quotes

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

Faith, God, Light

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare

Friend, Boldness

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

Woman, Hopeless, Friendless

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

Patience, Poor, Wound

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Nature, Great, Men

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare

Work, God, Moving

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

Made, Ambition, Stuff

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

Give, Thoughts, Tongue

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

Purpose, Devil, Scripture

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

Love, Speak, Low

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

Great, Cry, Born

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Good, Words, Talking

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Cannot, Start

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Men, Wise, Adversity

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

Music, Sweet, Himself

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare

Women, Men, May

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

Short, Action, Seem

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance, Darkness

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

Love, Young, Conscience

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give, Few, Voice

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

Him, Ambitious, Honour

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Time, Fear, Hate

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

Patience, Nothing, Pattern

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

Father, May, Living

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

Lady, Protest, Doth

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Dramatist

Born: April 26, 1564

Died: April 23, 1616

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