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

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
A phrase often attributed to William Shakespeare - Quotation of uncertain origin /

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
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heart

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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time

No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
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music

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
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Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
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An overflow of good converts to bad.
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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happiness

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
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death

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Julius Caesar /

death

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
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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.
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The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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death

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

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
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love

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 - The Merchant of Venice /

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice /

patience

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well and yet words are not deeds.
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Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
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