108 Shakespeare Quotes - Love, Life & Wisdom
    Love and Romance
 
  - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
 - Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
 - If music be the food of love, play on.
 - The course of true love never did run smooth.
 - There's beggary in love that can be reckoned.
 - Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
 - Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.
 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
 - They do not love that do not show their love.
 - Speak low if you speak love.
 - There's no such man; it is impossible.
 - Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
 
                                            -  See also: Wisdom Quotes for Insight and Understanding 
 
                                            
 
  Life and Mortality
 
  - To be, or not to be: that is the question.
 - Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
 - All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
 - We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
 - I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
 - Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
 - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
 - Nothing will come of nothing.
 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short.
 
                                            -  See also: Love Quotes for Romance and Devotion 
 
                                            
 
  Time and Fate
 
  - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
 - The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
 - O, call back yesterday, bid time return.
 - Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
 - Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
 - What's past is prologue.
 - We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
 - Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
 - There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
 - Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
 - Make use of time, let not advantage slip.
  
  Courage and Honour
 
  - Men at some time are masters of their fates.
 - The better part of valour is discretion.
 - The valiant never taste of death but once.
 - Men of few words are the best men.
 - He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
 - Be absolute for death; either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter.
 - When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
 - O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
 - Conscience makes cowards of us all.
 - Be not afraid of greatness.
  
  Wisdom and Knowledge
 
  - This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
 - The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
 - To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
 - How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
 - Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
 - There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
 - The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
 - Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
 - Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
  
  Comedy and Wordplay
 
  - Brevity is the soul of wit.
 - Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
 - I do desire we may be better strangers.
 - I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
 - Lord, what fools these mortals be!
 - Though she be but little, she is fierce.
 - Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
 - The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
 - I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
 - Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
  
  Friendship and Loyalty
 
  - Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.
 - Keep thy friend Under thy own life's key.
 - I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends.
 - A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
 - Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up.
 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.
 - When shall we three meet again?
  
  Ambition and Power
 
  - I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.
 - Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
 - Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
 - The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
 - My crown I am, but still my griefs are mine.
 - Greatness knows itself.
 - Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights.
 - Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.
 - The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.
 - Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
 - Men should be what they seem.
 - Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue.
  
  Jealousy and Envy
 
  - O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
 - Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
 - Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves.
 - And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
 - Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
 - The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
 - Thou wilt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.
 - Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
  
  Nature and Beauty
 
  - And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
 - One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
 - I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.
 - April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
 - Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
 - Virtue is beauty.
 - Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly.
 - The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.
 - The earth has music for those who listen.
 - The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact.