William Shakespeare Quotes (page 7)

1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
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“Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]”
Justice
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”
Revenge
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
Sorrow
“All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.”
VerifiedAs You Like It (1599–1600), Jaques, Act II, scene vii. · evidenceWorld
“I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.”
Courage
“A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.”
Peace
“Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.”
Virtue
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
VerifiedKing Lear (1605–6), Lear, Act I, scene iv. · evidenceChildren
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]”
Age and Aging
“The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]”
Arts and Artists
“To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.”
Business
“Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.”
Coward and Cowardice
“But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.”
Death and Dying
“God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]”
Faces
“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.”
Potential
“It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
Words
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
Youth
“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
Ambition
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
Ambition
“For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.”
Engineering
“I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.”
Happiness
“Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.”
Laughter
“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”
Smells
“I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.”
Advice
“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”
Judgment and Judges
“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”
Purpose
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
Temptation
“The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]”
Death and Dying
“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.”
Misfortunes
“If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.”
Action