Quotes from William Shakespeare

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

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Act II

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

All's well that ends well.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

Words, words, words.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

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

Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell, To die upon the hand I love so well.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Exit, pursued by a bear.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

Oh, I am fortune's fool!