William Shakespeare's quote

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Hamlet

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. All's Well That Ends Well

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. As You Like It

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night

If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more...

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume Romeo and Juliet

thus with a kiss I die

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. Romeo and Juliet

Lord, what fools these mortals be! A Midsummer Night's Dream

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Macbeth

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! Macbeth

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold. The Merchant of Venice

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. Romeo and Juliet

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. The Tempest

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Hamlet

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break. The Taming of the Shrew

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Julius Caesar

You speak an infinite deal of nothing. The Merchant of Venice

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

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.

Time is very slow for those who wait Very fast for those who are scared very long for those who lament Very short for those who celebrate But for those who love time is eternal

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Hamlet

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. Hamlet

Sweets to the sweet. Hamlet

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. Hamlet

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. Julius Caesar

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado About Nothing

Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. Romeo and Juliet

How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

All's well if all ends well.

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. Hamlet

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Et tu, Brute? Julius Caesar

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado About Nothing

Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me. Much Ado About Nothing

Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. Romeo and Juliet

Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged. Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took. Romeo: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Juliet: You kiss by the book. Romeo and Juliet

Wisely and slow, they stumble who run fast. Romeo and Juliet

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

Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.

Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night...

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library. Much Ado About Nothing

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. A Midsummer Night's Dream

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Hamlet

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. Julius Caesar

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. Romeo and Juliet

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.(Iago, Act II, scene iii) Othello

To be or not to be that is the question.. Hamlet

The best is yet to come.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet

The course of true love never did run smooth. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Brevity is the soul of wit. Hamlet

Action is eloquence.

Frailty, thy name is woman.

It is a wise father that knows his own child. "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2

There is no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.