Top 300 William Shakespeare Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

— William Shakespeare

52. “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

— William Shakespeare

53. “Words, words, words.”

— William Shakespeare

54. “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”

— William Shakespeare

55. “Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”

— William Shakespeare

56. “Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

— William Shakespeare

57. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare

58. “Like madness is the glory of life.”

— William Shakespeare

59. “God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

— William Shakespeare

60. “Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.”

— William Shakespeare

61. “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume.”

— William Shakespeare

62. “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

— William Shakespeare

63. “In time we hate that which we often fear.”

— William Shakespeare

64. “I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

— William Shakespeare

65. “This above all: 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

66. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

— William Shakespeare

67. “It is a wise father who knows his own child.”

— William Shakespeare

68. “All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

— William Shakespeare

69. “Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.”

— William Shakespeare

70. “O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

— William Shakespeare

71. “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

— William Shakespeare

72. “I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. Act V, Scene V.”

— William Shakespeare

73. “I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none.”

— William Shakespeare

74. “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”

— William Shakespeare

75. “O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

77. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

— William Shakespeare

78. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?”

— William Shakespeare

79. “If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

— William Shakespeare

80. “There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”

— William Shakespeare

81. “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

83. “But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

— William Shakespeare

84. “For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

— William Shakespeare

85. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

— William Shakespeare

86. “What’s past is prologue.”

— William Shakespeare

87. “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear.”

— William Shakespeare

88. “Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”

— William Shakespeare

89. “I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.”

— William Shakespeare

90. “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

— William Shakespeare

91. “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

— William Shakespeare

92. “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.”

— William Shakespeare

93. “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men. Act II.”

— William Shakespeare

94. “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.”

— William Shakespeare

95. “O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”

— William Shakespeare

96. “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.”

— William Shakespeare

97. “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.”

— William Shakespeare

98. “Absence from those we love is self from self – a deadly banishment.”

— William Shakespeare

99. “A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

— William Shakespeare

100. “Sweets to the sweet.”

— William Shakespeare