William Shakespeare Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old William Shakespeare quotes, William Shakespeare sayings, and William Shakespeare proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Violet is for faithfulness, / Which in me shall abide; / Hoping likewise that from your heart / You will not let it slide. William Shakespeare
We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another. William Shakespeare
I want that glib and oily art / To speak and purpose not. William Shakespeare
Good now, play one scene / Of excellent dissembling, and let it look / Like perfect honor. William Shakespeare
I am constant as the Northern star, of whose true-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament. William Shakespeare
O heaven! where man but constant, he were perfect; that one error fills him with faults. William Shakespeare
O, where is loyalty? / If it be banished from the frosty head, / Where shall it find a harbor in the earth? William Shakespeare
And then the lover, sighing like a furnace, with a woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow. William Shakespeare
To lip a wanton is to secure a couch. William Shakespeare
I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill. William Shakespeare
If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare
They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. William Shakespeare
If ever you have looked on better days; / If ever been where bells have knolled to church; / If ever sat at any good man's feast; / If ever from your eyelids ever wiped a tear, / And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, / Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. William Shakespeare
I feel the best is past. William Shakespeare
We have seen the best of our time. William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. William Shakespeare
A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother. William Shakespeare
His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing. William Shakespeare
The world is grown so bad / That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. William Shakespeare
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, / And is not careful what they mean thereby. William Shakespeare
If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there. / That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I / Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: / Alone I did it. William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose. William Shakespeare
For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently. William Shakespeare
The love looks not eyes, but heart. William Shakespeare
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. William Shakespeare
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light. William Shakespeare
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal. William Shakespeare