Quotes by Shakespeare

Action is eloquence.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

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

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

When the age is in, the wit is out.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other [side].

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

— Shakespeare

Friendship

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

There's small choice in rotten apples.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

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

— Shakespeare

Love

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

— Shakespeare

Education

Thus conscience does makes cowards of us all.

— Shakespeare

Education

Courage mounteth with occasion.

— Shakespeare

Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.

— Shakespeare

Courage

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

— Shakespeare

Life

The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief.

— Shakespeare

Happiness

But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom