Quotes from William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

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.

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd slave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, - As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Sweets to the sweet; farewell!

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

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

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

The ripest fruit first falls.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Foul whisperings are abroad.

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

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.