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 A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. - William Shakespeare | Acting and the Theatre Quotes  Why, then the world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes Action is eloquence. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare | Advice Quotes Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? - William Shakespeare | Aging and Old Age Quotes Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. - William Shakespeare | Aging and Old Age Quotes To business that we love we rise betime, And go to it with delight. - William Shakespeare | Capitalism Quotes Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. - William Shakespeare | Chance and Fortune Quotes His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up - William Shakespeare | Character and Personality Quotes What is the city but the people? - William Shakespeare | The City and the Country Quotes Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes Conscience does make cowards of us all. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes He that dies pays all debts. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns. - William Shakespeare | Death and Dying Quotes 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. - William Shakespeare | Environment Quotes I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. - William Shakespeare | Fame and Celebrities Quotes The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - William Shakespeare | Fashion Quotes That that is is. - William Shakespeare | Fate and Destiny Quotes If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me. - William Shakespeare | The Future Quotes I do desire we may be better strangers. - William Shakespeare | Hatred Quotes He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither; ripeness is all. - William Shakespeare | Homo Sapiens Quotes Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. - William Shakespeare | Honesty Quotes Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word. - William Shakespeare | Honour Quotes A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. - William Shakespeare | Humour and Humorists Quotes Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. - William Shakespeare | Illusion Quotes Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. - William Shakespeare | Insults and Calumny Quotes Such as we are made of, such we be. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes One man in his time plays many parts. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare | Love Quotes Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow. - William Shakespeare | Meetings and Partings Quotes God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare | Men and Women Quotes Neither a borrower nor a lender be for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - William Shakespeare | Money Quotes Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? - William Shakespeare | Passion and the Heart Quotes I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. - William Shakespeare | Patience Quotes Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. - William Shakespeare | Philosophy Quotes A politician . . . one that would circumvent God. - William Shakespeare | Politicians Quotes The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. - William Shakespeare | Power Quotes Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise. - William Shakespeare | Proof and Certainty Quotes Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. - William Shakespeare | The Seasons Quotes Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. - William Shakespeare | Self and Self-Knowledge Quotes Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare | Sleep Quotes Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. - William Shakespeare | Weariness Quotes For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away. - William Shakespeare | Weariness Quotes What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare | Sorrow Quotes When sorrows come, they come not as single spies, But in battalions! - William Shakespeare | Sorrow Quotes He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. - William Shakespeare | Speakers and Speeches Quotes When I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. - William Shakespeare | Travel and Travellers Quotes There's a small choice in rotten apples. - William Shakespeare | Vice Quotes We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me; Shall be my brother. - William Shakespeare | War Quotes I must be cruel Only to be kind. - William Shakespeare | Wickedness and Cruelty Quotes Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare | Wit Quotes Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety; other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies. - William Shakespeare | Women Quotes If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare | Work Quotes Things past redress are now with me past care. - William Shakespeare | Acceptance Quotes What cannot be avoided, t'were childish weakness to lament or fear. - William Shakespeare | Acceptance Quotes Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou striv'est to get; and what thou hast, forget'est. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes He is well paid that is well satisfied. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. - William Shakespeare | Forgiveness Quotes My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy. - William Shakespeare | Other Side Quotes 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. - William Shakespeare | Helping Other People Quotes A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. - William Shakespeare | Friendship Quotes Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. - William Shakespeare | Friendship Quotes Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good. - William Shakespeare | Prayer Quotes We cannot all be masters. - William Shakespeare | Self-Acceptance Quotes Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare | Self-Confidence Quotes Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Self-Confidence Quotes Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes Men at some time are masters of their fates. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare | Self-Reliance Quotes Make use of time, let not advantage slip. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes Time is the king of men. - William Shakespeare | One Day Quotes Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. - William Shakespeare | The Past Quotes What's past is prologue. - William Shakespeare | The Past Quotes Past, and to come, seems best; things present, worst. - William Shakespeare | The Present Quotes Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd slave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast. - William Shakespeare | Evenings Quotes Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | The Future Quotes Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. - William Shakespeare | Boring Days Quotes This, too, shall pass. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees? - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes God grant us patience! - William Shakespeare | Difficult Days Quotes Assume a virtue, if you have it not. - William Shakespeare | Positive Quotes The miserable have no medicine but hope. - William Shakespeare | Hope Quotes True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare | Hope Quotes This above all: to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare | Right Quotes We cannot all be masters. - William Shakespeare | Realistic Expectations Quotes Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | Anxiety about the Future Quotes Things done well and with care exempt themselves from fear. - William Shakespeare | Success and Happiness Quotes The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst." - William Shakespeare | Worry Quotes Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes Courage mounteth with occasion. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail. - William Shakespeare | Courage Quotes Action is eloquence. - William Shakespeare | Getting Going Quotes Men at some time are masters of their fates. - William Shakespeare | Success Quotes Much rain wears the marble. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare | Time Quotes Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. - William Shakespeare | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. - William Shakespeare | Failures and Mistakes Quotes Sweet are the uses of adversity. - William Shakespeare | Worthy Victories Quotes There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare | Events Quotes Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. - William Shakespeare | Beginnings Quotes Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. - William Shakespeare | Introspection Quotes If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound. - William Shakespeare | Life Quotes Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes The course of true love never did run smooth. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old. - William Shakespeare | True Love Quotes A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare | Lighten up Quotes Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - William Shakespeare | Lighten up Quotes The play's the thing. - William Shakespeare | Acting Quotes What's done can't be undone. - William Shakespeare | Action Quotes Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - William Shakespeare | Adversity Quotes Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare | Age Quotes An old man is twice a child. - William Shakespeare | Age Quotes When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. - William Shakespeare | Ambition Quotes Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. - William Shakespeare | Borrowing Quotes Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare | Brevity Quotes God befriend us, as our cause is just! - William Shakespeare | Cause Quotes It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare | Childhood Quotes There's small choice in rotten apples. - William Shakespeare | Choice Quotes The people are the city. - William Shakespeare | City Quotes Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man. - William Shakespeare | Clothes Quotes The soul of this man is his clothes. - William Shakespeare | Clothes Quotes Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. - William Shakespeare | Conscience Quotes I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. - William Shakespeare | Contentment Quotes He is well paid that is well satisfied. - William Shakespeare | Contentment Quotes I must be cruel, only to be kind. - William Shakespeare | Cruelty Quotes I am dying, Egypt, dying. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes To die:—to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - William Shakespeare | Death Quotes He that dies pays all debts. - William Shakespeare | Debt Quotes There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. - William Shakespeare | Destiny Quotes He will give the devil his due. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes The prince of darkness is a gentleman. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. - William Shakespeare | Devil Quotes Now is the Winter of our discontent. - William Shakespeare | Discontent Quotes Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. - William Shakespeare | Discration Quotes The better part of valour is discretion. - William Shakespeare | Discration Quotes To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? - William Shakespeare | Doubt Quotes Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare | Doubt Quotes We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare | Dreams Quotes He hath eaten me out of house and home. - William Shakespeare | Eating Quotes Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest. - William Shakespeare | Economy Quotes The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea. - William Shakespeare | England Quotes The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. - William Shakespeare | Evil Quotes And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,— As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched. - William Shakespeare | Excuse Quotes A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. - William Shakespeare | Face Quotes God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. - William Shakespeare | Face Quotes Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night. - William Shakespeare | Fairies Quotes Sweets to the sweet; farewell! - William Shakespeare | Farewell Quotes I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. - William Shakespeare | Fashion Quotes It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare | Father Quotes O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! - William Shakespeare | Flattery Quotes The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes A fool's bolt is soon shot. - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes Lord, what fools these mortals be! - William Shakespeare | Fools Quotes O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. - William Shakespeare | Fortune Quotes There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. - William Shakespeare | Fortune Quotes Frailty, thy name is woman! - William Shakespeare | Frailty Quotes I am wealthy in my friends. - William Shakespeare | Friends Quotes The ripest fruit first falls. - William Shakespeare | Fruit Quotes Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare | Gift Quotes Foul whisperings are abroad. - William Shakespeare | Gossip Quotes He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural. - William Shakespeare | Grace Quotes Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare | Greatness Quotes Every one can master a grief but he that has it. - William Shakespeare | Grief Quotes What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief. - William Shakespeare | Grief Quotes Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. - William Shakespeare | Guest Quotes How use doth breed a habit in a man! - William Shakespeare | Habit Quotes Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. - William Shakespeare | Hearing Quotes But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am. - William Shakespeare | Heart Quotes The cunning livery of hell. - William Shakespeare | Hell Quotes Help me, Cassius, or I sink! - William Shakespeare | Help Quotes Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare | Honesty Quotes For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men. - William Shakespeare | Honor Quotes A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! - William Shakespeare | Horses Quotes Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. - William Shakespeare | Hunger Quotes Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. - William Shakespeare | Husbands Quotes This was the most unkindest cut of all; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arm, Quite vanquish'd him; then burst his mighty heart. - William Shakespeare | Ingratitude Quotes That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true. - William Shakespeare | Insanity Quotes Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. - William Shakespeare | Insanity Quotes O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleas-ance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! - William Shakespeare | Intemperance Quotes Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. - William Shakespeare | Jesting Quotes Jesters do often prove prophets. - William Shakespeare | Jesting Quotes I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? - William Shakespeare | Jew Quotes I wish you all the joy that you can wish. - William Shakespeare | Joy Quotes Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy. - William Shakespeare | Joy Quotes A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee! - William Shakespeare | Judge Quotes Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. - William Shakespeare | Judge Quotes Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! - William Shakespeare | Judgment Quotes Are you good men and true? - William Shakespeare | Jury Quotes The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try. - William Shakespeare | Jury Quotes This bond is forfeit; And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh. - William Shakespeare | Justice Quotes Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. - William Shakespeare | Justice Quotes |