William Shakespeare Quotes - Page 3
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
True hope is swift and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes Gods, and meaner creatures kings.
- William Shakespeare
The miserable have no medicine but hope.
- William Shakespeare
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in mine arms.
- William Shakespeare
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say ‘It lightens.’
- William Shakespeare
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder.
- William Shakespeare
I go, I go, look how I go, Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.
- William Shakespeare
Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
- William Shakespeare
Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent.
- William Shakespeare
Modest wisdom plucks me from over credulous haste.
- William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
Nay, but make haste, the better foot before.
- William Shakespeare
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
- William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
- William Shakespeare
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
- William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
- William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
- William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
- William Shakespeare
See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let’s be red with mirth.
- William Shakespeare
Gentle my lord, sleek o’er your rugged looks; Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.
- William Shakespeare
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
- William Shakespeare
Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
- William Shakespeare
Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.
- William Shakespeare
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
- William Shakespeare
Foul whisp’rings are abroad.
- William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me.
- William Shakespeare
Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
- William Shakespeare
My soul is in the sky.
- William Shakespeare
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
- William Shakespeare
The fire i’ th’ flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself and like the current flies Each bound it chafes.
- William Shakespeare
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
- William Shakespeare
A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffer’d, rivers cannot quench.
- William Shakespeare
A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
- William Shakespeare
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
- William Shakespeare
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
- William Shakespeare
Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
- William Shakespeare
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreams of in your philosophy.
- William Shakespeare
Let good digestion wait on appetite and health on both.
- William Shakespeare
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
- William Shakespeare


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