174 Quotes By William Shakespeare


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

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 on god

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare on god

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare on god

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare on good

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

The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare on good

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare on good

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare on good

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare on good

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare on good

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

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

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.
William Shakespeare on good

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare on good

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare on good

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare on good

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare on great

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

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