174 Quotes By William Shakespeare


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
William Shakespeare on fool

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare on happiness

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

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare on honesty

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare on husband

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
William Shakespeare on hypocrisy

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