WISDOM · VERIFIED · EN

Shakespeare Quote

“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

Source: Quotables — alvations/Quotables (CC0 1.0 dataset)

Attribution status: verified · Publication status: cleared

Explore more quotes attributed to Shakespeare or browse wisdom quotes.

If you believe this quote is incorrectly attributed or should be removed, see Copyright and quote corrections.

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

Read quote

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

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Read quote

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

Read quote

When the age is in, the wit is out.

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Read quote

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

— Shakespeare

Wisdom

Read quote