William Shakespeare Quotes
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Many quotes
from the works of William Shakespeare have
entered into common usage in the English Language.
Listed on this page are some of the more famous
quotes from the works of "The Bard of
Avon", as he has been nicknamed: |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream |
"The course of true love
never did run smooth."
"Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." |
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| Antony and Cleopatra |
| "My salad days, when I was
green in judgment." |
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| As You Like It |
"All the world 's a stage,
and all the men and women merely players. They
have their exits and their entrances; And one
man in his time plays many parts."
"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"
"How bitter a thing it is to look
into happiness through another man's eyes!"
"The fool doth think he is wise, but
the wise man knows himself to be a fool." |
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| Coriolanus |
| "Nature teaches beasts to
know their friends." |
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| Cymbeline |
"The game is up."
"I have not slept one wink." |
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| Hamlet |
"To be, or not to be, that
is the question."
"Neither a
borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses
both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls
the edge of husbandry."
"This
above all: to thine own self be true."
"There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so."
"The
lady doth protest too much, methinks."
"In my mind's eye."
"Brevity
is the soul of wit."
"Rich gifts
wax poor when givers prove unkind."
"Do you think I am easier to be played
on than a pipe?"
"When sorrows
come, they come not single spies, but in battalions." |
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