William Shakespeare Quotes
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201. “Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

204. “What’s past is prologue.”

— William Shakespeare

205. “Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”

— William Shakespeare

206. “Brevity is the soul of wit.”

— William Shakespeare

207. “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

— William Shakespeare

208. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

— William Shakespeare

209. “All things are ready, if our mind be so.”

— William Shakespeare

210. “The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.”

— William Shakespeare

211. “To die, to sleep – To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...”

— William Shakespeare

212. “Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”

— William Shakespeare

213. “When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

— William Shakespeare

214. “O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.”

— William Shakespeare

215. “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

— William Shakespeare

216. “I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.”

— William Shakespeare

217. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.”

— William Shakespeare

218. “Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell and all Montagues.”

— William Shakespeare

219. “Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

— William Shakespeare

220. “Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

— William Shakespeare

221. “True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does.”

— William Shakespeare

222. “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

— William Shakespeare

223. “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”

— William Shakespeare

224. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”

— William Shakespeare

225. “Discretion is the better part of valor.”

— William Shakespeare

226. “Beware the ides of March.”

— William Shakespeare

227. “Some rise by sin, and some by virtues fall.”

— William Shakespeare

228. “They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.”

— William Shakespeare

229. “If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.”

— William Shakespeare

230. “I am not bound to please thee with my answer.”

— William Shakespeare

231. “God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.”

— William Shakespeare

232. “Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

— William Shakespeare

233. “I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

— William Shakespeare

234. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

— William Shakespeare

235. “People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.”

— William Shakespeare

236. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”

— William Shakespeare

237. “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”

— William Shakespeare

238. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

— William Shakespeare

239. “And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

— William Shakespeare

240. “Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”

— William Shakespeare

241. “I am in blood Stepp’d in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

— William Shakespeare

242. “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.”

— William Shakespeare

243. “Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

— William Shakespeare

244. “Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”

— William Shakespeare

245. “Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”

— William Shakespeare

246. “Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”

— William Shakespeare

247. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”

— William Shakespeare

248. “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

— William Shakespeare

249. “All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

— William Shakespeare

250. “He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.”

— William Shakespeare