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Quotes by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

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

We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

The royal throne of kings this scepterd 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 worlds 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 ravelld slave of care The death of each days life sore labours bath Balm of hurt minds great natures second course Chief nourisher in lifes feast.

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

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

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.

God has given you one face and you make yourselves another.

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

Fairies black grey green and white You moonshine revellers and shades of night.

I have touchd 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.

That that is is.

O that mens ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!