William Shakespeare Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.

Nothing comes from doing nothing.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

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

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I dote on his very absence.

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.