Famous Quotes by William Shakespeare

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

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

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate!Too early seen unknown, and known too late!Prodigious birth of love it is to me,That I must love a loathed enemy.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“Doubt thou the stars are fire;Doubt that the sun doth move;Doubt truth to be a liar;But never doubt I love.”

“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.”

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

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

“If I were to kiss you then go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils I saw heaven without ever entering it.”

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears;What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.”

“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”

“These times of woe afford no time to woo.”

“For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.”

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.”

“Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

“What's done cannot be undone.”