William Shakespeare Quotes

1564–1616 England

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Also known as: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William, Shakespearean, Shakspeare

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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?

Macbeth (1606)

Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Cymbeline (1610)

As 'tis ever common
That men are merriest when they are from home.

Henry V (1599)

I dare do all that may become a man:
Who dares do more, is none.

Macbeth (1605)

Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

My desolation does begin to make
A better life.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

There's place and means for every man alive.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Sermons in stones and good in every thing.

Men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages:
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

All other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

Richard III (1591)

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

Muster your wits: stand in your own defence;
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.

There is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion.

Such a nature,
Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow
Which he treads on at noon.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.