William Shakespeare

""This above all: To thine own self be true.""

- William Shakespeare

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

- William Shakespeare

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Of all flowers, me thinks a rose is best."

- William Shakespeare

"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"This above all: To thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

- William Shakespeare

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

- William Shakespeare

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

- William Shakespeare

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"Make not your thoughts your prisons."

- William Shakespeare

"The course of true love did never run smooth."

- William Shakespeare

"Happy Wednesday! Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

- William Shakespeare

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude."

- William Shakespeare

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be"

- William Shakespeare

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

- William Shakespeare

"The glorious sun, / Stays in his course and plays the alchemist, / Turning with splendor of his precious eye / The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold."

- William Shakespeare

"A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."

- William Shakespeare

"There is a history in all men's lives."

- William Shakespeare

"A horse! A horse! My Kingdom for a horse!"

- William Shakespeare

"Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone."

- William Shakespeare

"O, it is excellent/To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous/To use it like a giant."

- William Shakespeare

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

- William Shakespeare

"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."

- William Shakespeare

"We few, we Band of Brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."

- William Shakespeare

"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."

- William Shakespeare

"I would not wish any companion in the world but you."

- William Shakespeare

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom"

- William Shakespeare

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness."

- William Shakespeare

"He is not worthy of the honey comb. That shuns the hives because the bees have stings."

- William Shakespeare

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."

- William Shakespeare

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

- William Shakespeare

"The earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

"Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."

- William Shakespeare

"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."

- William Shakespeare

"To thine own self be true"

- William Shakespeare

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens — our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

- William Shakespeare

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly, then your love would also change."

- William Shakespeare

"The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness."

- William Shakespeare

"If music be the food of love, play on."

- William Shakespeare

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do."

- William Shakespeare

"I can no other answer make, but, thanks, And thanks, and ever thanks."

- William Shakespeare

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

- William Shakespeare

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

- William Shakespeare

"Though she be but little, she is fierce."

- William Shakespeare

"Diligence is the key to success."

- William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date."

- William Shakespeare

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

- William Shakespeare

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

- William Shakespeare

"Make use of time, let not advantage slip."

- William Shakespeare

"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."

- William Shakespeare

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

- William Shakespeare

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

- William Shakespeare

"Boldness be my friend. Arm me, audacity."

- William Shakespeare

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

- William Shakespeare

"Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."

- William Shakespeare

"Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

- William Shakespeare

"Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself."

- William Shakespeare

"Pray you now, forget and forgive."

- William Shakespeare

"rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

- William Shakespeare

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Boldness be my friend."

- William Shakespeare

"Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."

- William Shakespeare

"Everything that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."

- William Shakespeare

"We few, we happy few, we Band of Brothers; for he who stays and sheds his blood with me today, shall be my brother."

- William Shakespeare

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;"

- William Shakespeare

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

- William Shakespeare

"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul rememb’ring my good friends."

- William Shakespeare

"O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

- William Shakespeare

"The day shall not be up so soon as I, to try the fair adventure of tomorrow."

- William Shakespeare

"'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home."

- William Shakespeare

"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks."

- William Shakespeare

"“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”"

- William Shakespeare

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

- William Shakespeare

"What’s past is prologue."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

- William Shakespeare

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

- William Shakespeare

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare

"To Thine Own Self Be True"

- William Shakespeare

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

- William Shakespeare

"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man pick’d out of ten thousand."

- William Shakespeare

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

- William Shakespeare

"A light heart lives long."

- William Shakespeare

"Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast."

- William Shakespeare

"All that glitters is not gold."

- William Shakespeare

""A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.""

- William Shakespeare

"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare

"“With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come”"

- William Shakespeare

""April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.""

- William Shakespeare

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

- William Shakespeare

"The Earth has music for those who listen."

- William Shakespeare

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare

"Love All, Trust Few, Do Wrong to None."

- William Shakespeare

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

- William Shakespeare

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

- William Shakespeare

"Speak less than you know; have more than you show."

- William Shakespeare

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

- William Shakespeare

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

- William Shakespeare

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odor which doth in it live."

- William Shakespeare

"Better three hours too soon than one minute too late."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself."

- William Shakespeare

"An overflow of good converts to bad."

- William Shakespeare

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

- William Shakespeare

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

- William Shakespeare

"Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembers himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?"

- William Shakespeare

"Have more than you show, and speak less than you know."

- William Shakespeare

"I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks…"

- William Shakespeare

"This our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

- William Shakespeare

""Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.""

- William Shakespeare

"Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

"April… hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings."

- William Shakespeare

"The sweetest honey, is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite."

- William Shakespeare

"“And do as adversaries do in law – Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”"

- William Shakespeare

"And do as adversaries do in law – Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."

- William Shakespeare

"Men of few words are the best men."

- William Shakespeare

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare

"Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy."

- William Shakespeare

"The leopard does not change his spots."

- William Shakespeare

"Lions make leopards tame."

- William Shakespeare

"We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."

- William Shakespeare

""Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.""

- William Shakespeare

"You have witchcraft in your lips."

- William Shakespeare

"’Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world."

- William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date."

- William Shakespeare

"O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."

- William Shakespeare

"Let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me"

- William Shakespeare

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

- William Shakespeare

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

- William Shakespeare

"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see."

- William Shakespeare

"If I be waspish, best beware of my sting"

- William Shakespeare

"Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them"

- William Shakespeare

"Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour As thou are in desire?"

- William Shakespeare

"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"

- William Shakespeare

"As, I confess, it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not."

- William Shakespeare

"Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people"

- William Shakespeare

"The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch"

- William Shakespeare

"Better three hours too soon than a minute late."

- William Shakespeare

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

- William Shakespeare

"Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."

- William Shakespeare

"The spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries, and the mazèd world By their increase now knows not which is which."

- William Shakespeare

"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy—rich, not gaudy, For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

- William Shakespeare

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

- William Shakespeare

"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."

- William Shakespeare

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

- William Shakespeare

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

- William Shakespeare

"'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."

- William Shakespeare

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

- William Shakespeare

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

- William Shakespeare

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

- William Shakespeare

"What's done can't be undone."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

- William Shakespeare

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

- William Shakespeare

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"

- William Shakespeare

"Such as we are made of, such we be."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

- William Shakespeare

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

- William Shakespeare

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

- William Shakespeare

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

- William Shakespeare

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

- William Shakespeare

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

- William Shakespeare

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

- William Shakespeare

"Listen to many, speak to a few."

- William Shakespeare

"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."

- William Shakespeare

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

- William Shakespeare

"Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge."

- William Shakespeare

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

- William Shakespeare

"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"The fault…is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"Thought is free."

- William Shakespeare

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

- William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind"

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

"All the world’s a stage"

- William Shakespeare

"If music be the food of love, play on"

- William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"

- William Shakespeare

"What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet"

- William Shakespeare

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

- William Shakespeare

"This above all - to thine own self be true"

- William Shakespeare

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"

- William Shakespeare

"...it is not enough to speak, but to speak true."

- William Shakespeare

"But come what may, I do adore thee so that danger shall seem sport, and I will go"

- William Shakespeare

"Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed."

- William Shakespeare

"...we know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me."

- William Shakespeare

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

- William Shakespeare

"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."

- William Shakespeare

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

- William Shakespeare

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown."

- William Shakespeare

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

- William Shakespeare

"Nothing can come of nothing."

- William Shakespeare

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

- William Shakespeare

"What is past is prologue."

- William Shakespeare

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."

- William Shakespeare

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

- William Shakespeare

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

- William Shakespeare

"I bear a charmed life."

- William Shakespeare

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

- William Shakespeare

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

- William Shakespeare

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

- William Shakespeare

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

- William Shakespeare

"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."

- William Shakespeare

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."

- William Shakespeare

"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."

- William Shakespeare

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

- William Shakespeare

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"All that glisters is not gold."

- William Shakespeare

"The fault...is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

- William Shakespeare

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

- William Shakespeare

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

- William Shakespeare

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."

- William Shakespeare

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

- William Shakespeare

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it."

- William Shakespeare

"One may smile, and smile, be a villain."

- William Shakespeare

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

- William Shakespeare

"Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."

- William Shakespeare

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

- William Shakespeare

"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."

- William Shakespeare

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

- William Shakespeare

"All things are ready, if our mind be so."

- William Shakespeare

"Many a true word hath been spoken in jest."

- William Shakespeare

"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

- William Shakespeare

"The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"

- William Shakespeare

"Men should be what they seem."

- William Shakespeare

"Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love."

- William Shakespeare

"I am one who loved not wisely but too well."

- William Shakespeare

"A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake."

- William Shakespeare

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

- William Shakespeare

"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."

- William Shakespeare

"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is too young to know what conscience is."

- William Shakespeare

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."

- William Shakespeare

"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."

- William Shakespeare

"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."

- William Shakespeare

"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

- William Shakespeare

"In black ink my love may still shine bright."

- William Shakespeare

"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom."

- William Shakespeare

"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek!"

- William Shakespeare

"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"

- William Shakespeare

"Speak low, if you speak love."

- William Shakespeare

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee."

- William Shakespeare

"For you, in my respect, are all the world."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is merely a madness."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds."

- William Shakespeare

"How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath?"

- William Shakespeare

"I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue."

- William Shakespeare

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."

- William Shakespeare

"'I can see that he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.'"

- William Shakespeare

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."

- William Shakespeare

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

- William Shakespeare

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

- William Shakespeare

"My pride fell with my fortunes."

- William Shakespeare

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

- William Shakespeare

"I dote on his very absence."

- William Shakespeare

"There's many a man has more hair than wit."

- William Shakespeare

"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."

- William Shakespeare

"A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish."

- William Shakespeare

"The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people."

- William Shakespeare

"The welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing."

- William Shakespeare

"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome."

- William Shakespeare

"There is no place like home."

- William Shakespeare

"Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing."

- William Shakespeare

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

- William Shakespeare

"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."

- William Shakespeare

"All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd: Fortune brings in some boats, that are not steered."

- William Shakespeare

"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."

- William Shakespeare

"Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day."

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered."

- William Shakespeare

"And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence; Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence."

- William Shakespeare

"Many a man his life hath sold but my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold."

- William Shakespeare

"What's past is prologue."

- William Shakespeare

"One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."

- William Shakespeare

"A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. A lover’s ear will hear the lowest sound."

- William Shakespeare

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn."

- William Shakespeare

"What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken."

- William Shakespeare

"Love sought is good, but given unsought better."

- William Shakespeare

"Journeys end in lovers meeting, every wise man’s son doth know."

- William Shakespeare

"Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools."

- William Shakespeare

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

- William Shakespeare

"A purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning."

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are gardens, our wills are our gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

- William Shakespeare

"Life every man holds dear; but the brave man holds honor far more precious-dear than life."

- William Shakespeare

"I do desire we may be better strangers."

- William Shakespeare

"You are not worth another word else I’d call you knave."

- William Shakespeare

"I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. Besides, I like you not."

- William Shakespeare

"To be or not to be: that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"All the world’s a stage."

- William Shakespeare

"What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken."

- William Shakespeare

"There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned."

- William Shakespeare

"What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter: Present mirth hath present laughter."

- William Shakespeare

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?"

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"Thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings."

- William Shakespeare

"I kiss thee with a most constant heart."

- William Shakespeare

"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."

- William Shakespeare

"When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that. . ."

- William Shakespeare

"So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground."

- William Shakespeare

"Thee will I love, and with thee lead my life."

- William Shakespeare

"If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in a lover’s eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou has not loved."

- William Shakespeare

"When you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave."

- William Shakespeare

""Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.""

- William Shakespeare

"I am a kind of burr; I shall stick"

- William Shakespeare

"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."

- William Shakespeare

"I drink to the general joy of the whole table."

- William Shakespeare

"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."

- William Shakespeare

"‘Tis a happy thing to be the father unto many sons."

- William Shakespeare

"O! it is excellent / To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant."

- William Shakespeare

"“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.”"

- William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners."

- William Shakespeare

"Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

- William Shakespeare

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose, Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."

- William Shakespeare

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

- William Shakespeare

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

- William Shakespeare

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."

- William Shakespeare

"With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come"

- William Shakespeare

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

- William Shakespeare

"Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

- William Shakespeare

"Goodnight, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."

- William Shakespeare

"When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare