William Shakespeare
226 quotes
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"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
"Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love."
"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
"If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die."
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
"When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun."
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
"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, His acts being seven ages."
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"
"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
"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."
"These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triump die, like fire and powderWhich, as they kiss, consume"
"My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy."
"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."