Find the best quotes, maxims and aphorisms of William Shakespeare

Biography : English poet, playwright and actor of the 16th–17th century, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Born: 1564 - Died: 1616
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

William Shakespeare - Quotes

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra /

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.
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
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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.
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
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time

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

youth

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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life

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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love

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
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They do not love that do not show their love.
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love

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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life

The valiant never taste of death but once.
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death

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream /

love

For I can raise no money by vile means.
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Speak low, if you speak love.
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love

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
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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.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
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Death is a fearful thing.
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death

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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time

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
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love

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

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