Life Lessons from Shakespeare Quotes
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
To thine own self be true.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The darling buds of May.
What’s done is done.
The better part of valor is discretion.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars.
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.
All that glisters is not gold.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awakeit’s everything except what it is!
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
So we grew together, like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.
This above all: to thine own self be true.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and I will wear him in my heart’s core, ay, in my heart of heart.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.