Of all the facts about William Shakespeare, one of the strangest of all is that, even though he is considered as the best writer of the English Language that there has ever been, Shakespeare didn’t actually write all the words of some of his plays. However, several people say that William Shakespeare didn’t write any of his works at all and that William Shakespeare was just a pen name that was used by some other writers of his time. Whatever the truth, many of Shakespeare’s words and expressions are still used in the English Language today. These William Shakespeare quotes are interesting and fun to read.
35 William Shakespeare Quotes
- “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”. William Shakespeare
- “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” William Shakespeare
- “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” William Shakespeare
- “But, for my own part, it was Greek to me”. William Shakespeare
- “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” William Shakespeare
- “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” William Shakespeare
- “Though she be but little, she is fierce!” William Shakespeare
- “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” William Shakespeare
- “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare
- “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” William Shakespeare
- “To be, or not to be: that is the question.” Williams Shakespeare
- “But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” William Shakespeare
- “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” William Shakespeare
- “Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” William Shakespeare
- “All that glitters is not gold.” William Shakespeare
- “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” William Shakespeare
- “Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” William Shakespeare
- “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” William Shakespeare
- “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” William Shakespeare
- “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry”. William Shakespeare
- “The course of true love never did run smooth.” William Shakespeare
- “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” William Shakespeare
- “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.” William Shakespeare
- “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.” William Shakespeare
- “The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare
- “Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” William Shakespeare
- “Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.” William Shakespeare
- “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” William Shakespeare
- “This above all: to thine own self be true”. William Shakespeare
- “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” William Shakespeare
- “Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.” William Shakespeare
- “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
- “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” William Shakespeare
- “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare
- “There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare
