Shakespeare Quotes – Timeless Words of Wisdom

To be, or not to be: that is the question. – Hamlet

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

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

We are such stuff as dreams are made on. – The Tempest

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

If music be the food of love, play on. – Twelfth Night

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

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

This above all: to thine own self be true. – Hamlet

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. – Hamlet

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – Twelfth Night

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. – Hamlet

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. – As You Like It

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

The better part of valor is discretion. – Henry IV, Part I

Though she be but little, she is fierce. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – Twelfth Night

Shakespeare Quotes – Timeless Words of Wisdom part 2

Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine. – Romeo and Juliet

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – Romeo and Juliet

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. – Julius Caesar

This is the excellent foppery of the world. – King Lear

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. – Julius Caesar

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. – Macbeth

Brevity is the soul of wit. – Hamlet

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. – Romeo and Juliet

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. – Sonnet 116

The quality of mercy is not strained. – The Merchant of Venice

If you prick us, do we not bleed? – The Merchant of Venice

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

I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it. – As You Like It

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

This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. – Romeo and Juliet

I am one who loved not wisely but too well. – Othello

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.” – Julius Caesar

“The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief.” – Othello

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended: That you have but slumber’d here, While these visions did appear.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me: Now no more The juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip:— Yare, yare, good Iras; quick—Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Cæsar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath: Husband, I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire, and air; my other elements I give to baser life.” – Antony and Cleopatra

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” – Hamlet

“Men at some time are masters of their fates.” – Julius Caesar

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” – Henry VI, Part III

“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh nor more; Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.” – Much Ado About Nothing

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – Hamlet

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