William Shakespeare Quotes

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd:
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd;
By thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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

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

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)

Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.

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

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.

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

They do not love that do not show their love.

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