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William Shakespeare

37 quotes

Selected quotes · 37
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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William ShakespeareLove
02
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William ShakespeareCourage
03
If music be the food of love, play on.
William ShakespeareCreativity
04
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William ShakespeareLove
05
They do not love that do not show their love.
William ShakespeareLove
06
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William ShakespeareFailure
07
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
William ShakespeareLove
08
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareCreativity
09
Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William ShakespeareNature
10
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William ShakespeareLove
11
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.
William ShakespeareAction
12
Action is eloquence.
William ShakespeareAction
13
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William ShakespeareLove
14
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William ShakespeareSuccess
15
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareCourage
16
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William ShakespeareCourage
17
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William ShakespeareFaith
18
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William ShakespeareLife
19
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William ShakespeareLove
20
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William ShakespeareWisdom
21
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
William ShakespeareCreativity
22
Boldness be my friend.
William ShakespeareCourage
23
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William ShakespeareCourage
24
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William ShakespeareTime
25
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William ShakespeareNature
26
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William ShakespeareTime
27
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William ShakespeareFreedom
28
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William ShakespeareTime
29
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
William ShakespeareWisdom
30
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareTime
31
The earth has music for those who listen.
William ShakespeareCreativity
32
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William ShakespeareWisdom
33
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William ShakespeareWisdom
34
When words fail, music speaks.
William ShakespeareCreativity
35
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William ShakespeareCourage
36
Death is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareCourage
37
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareFaith