Quotes by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) — Dichter · keine · England

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) war ein englischer Dramatiker, Lyriker und Schauspieler in London und Stratford-upon-Avon. Er gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Autoren der Weltliteratur, dessen Tragödien, Komödien und Sonette grundlegende menschliche Konflikte um Macht, Schuld und Vergänglichkeit behandeln. Für Bibelleser bieten seine Texte, die vielfach von biblischer Sprache und Motiven durchzogen sind, tiefgründige Anschauungen über das Wesen des Menschen und existenzielle moralische Fragen.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Time & Transience, Courage & Strength, Fear & Anxiety, Grief & Comfort, Suffering & the Question of God, Ethical Questions

Quotes by William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare

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

There is more dignity in generous forgiveness than in revenge.
William Shakespeare

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

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

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.
William Shakespeare

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

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Where love calculates, it grows poor.
William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare

To poor me, my library was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare

Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.
William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

A little fire is quickly trodden out, which, being suffered, rivers cannot quench.
William Shakespeare

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

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

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

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince; And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth than your philosophy dreams of.
William Shakespeare

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
William Shakespeare

The richest feast is joyless if the host's welcome and attentiveness do not show the guests they are wanted.
William Shakespeare

Let us meet the time as it seeks us.
William Shakespeare

You that choose not by the view, // Chance as fair and choose as true.
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O brave new world, that has such people in it.
William Shakespeare

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
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I cannot weep, but my heart bleeds.
William Shakespeare

My tablets! Meet it is I set it down, that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!
William Shakespeare

'Tis a cruelty to load a falling man.
William Shakespeare

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