william shakespeare Quotes

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

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

You know who you are, but know not who you could be.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

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

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love

If your mind dislike anything obey it

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Time does not have the same appeal for every one

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

A light heart lives long.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.

The good I stand on is my truth and honesty.

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

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

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

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

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

A smile cures the wounding of a frown.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

Speak low, if you speak love.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.

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

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

The course of true love never did run smooth.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

The head is not more native to the heart.

My friends were poor but honest, so's my love.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

Small things make base men proud.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

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

Though she be but little, she is fierce!

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

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

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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

Love does not see with the eyes, but with the soul.

Love asks me no questions and gives me endless support.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

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

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.