All 78,476 Quotes


Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare on ignorance

I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare on independence

Those that are good manners at thecourt are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable atthe court.
William Shakespeare on individuality

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare on love

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare on love

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
William Shakespeare on love

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. (As You Like It)
William Shakespeare on love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; <
William Shakespeare on love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, <
William Shakespeare on love

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 on marriage

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 on music

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare on nothing

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

My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.
William Shakespeare on patience

For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
William Shakespeare on philosophy

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
William Shakespeare on pride

Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.
William Shakespeare on sleep

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
William Shakespeare on sorrow

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