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Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2026 Update)

William Shakespeare Quote: “Listen to many, speak to a few.”

1. “Listen to many, speak to a few.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Communication Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

2. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Short Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Values Quotes, Quality Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

3. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Philosophical Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

4. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

5. “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “Some are born great, others achieve greatness.”

6. “Some are born great, others achieve greatness.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Interesting Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Quotes About People, Important Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.”

7. “Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

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

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Character Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.”

9. “I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “All the world’s a stage.”

10. “All the world’s a stage.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Quality Quotes, Character Quotes, Quotes About Acting

William Shakespeare Quote: “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

11. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Challenges Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”

12. “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “What’s done cannot be undone.”

13. “What’s done cannot be undone.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Quality Quotes, Past Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Never play with the feelings of others. Because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a life time.”

14. “Never play with the feelings of others. Because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a life time.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Winning Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

William Shakespeare Quote: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

15. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Fiction Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”

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

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Emotional Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

William Shakespeare Quote: “Et tu, Brute?”

17. “Et tu, Brute?”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “If music be the food of love, play on.”

18. “If music be the food of love, play on.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Music Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Love You Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “These violent delights have violent ends.”

19. “These violent delights have violent ends.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

20. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Interesting Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Important Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

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

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Interesting Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

22. “We know what we are, but not what we may be.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

23. “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Famous Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Fiction Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

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

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Courage Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Famous Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “I defy you, stars.”

25. “I defy you, stars.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Performance Quotes, Character Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “To be or not to be that is the question.”

26. “To be or not to be that is the question.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Famous Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

27. “Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Meaningful Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Performance Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

29. “This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Integrity Quotes, Famous Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Poetry Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “All’s well if all ends well.”

30. “All’s well if all ends well.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Positive Short Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

31. “The golden age is before us, not behind us.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

32. “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Time Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Preparation Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “The rest, is silence.”

33. “The rest, is silence.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Loss Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Character Quotes, Silence Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

34. “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Funny Quotes, Short Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Creative Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

35. “Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Friends Quotes, Meaningful Friendship Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

36. “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Father's Day Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

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

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Character Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Love Is Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

38. “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Guilt Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

39. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

40. “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Witty Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

41. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Relationship Quotes, Passion Quotes, Love You Quotes, Love Is Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

42. “Presume not that I am the thing I was.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Identity Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”

43. “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

Featured in: Love Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Love Life Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

44. “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Creative Quotes, Clever Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

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

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

46. “Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Be Yourself Quotes, Human Nature Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

47. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Different Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Quotes About Laughter

William Shakespeare Quote: “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

48. “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Fiction Quotes, Deep Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

William Shakespeare Quote: “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

49. “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

— William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Quote: “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

50. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

— William Shakespeare

Featured in: Poetry Quotes, Desire Quotes, Creative Quotes, Darkness Quotes

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