174 Quotes By William Shakespeare


Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare on love

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare on love

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare on love

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare on love

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare on love

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare on love

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

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

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.
William Shakespeare on men

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.
William Shakespeare on men

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

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare on men

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

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare on men

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 men

But men are men the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare on men

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.
William Shakespeare on men

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare on men

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 men