Quotes by William Shakespeare

RUMOUR:Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,The which in every language I pronounce,Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

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

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

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

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

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I was adored once too.

What a 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.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Women may fall when theres no strength in men.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is a fearful thing.

The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, which hurts and is desired.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banishd from myself And Silvia is myself: banishd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The valiant never taste of death but once.