SHAKESPEARE SAYINGS

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.



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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night)



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There is no darkness but ignorance.







Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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



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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.



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Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.



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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.



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I must be cruel, only to be kind.



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Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. (Macbeth)



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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)



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The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. (Julius Caesar)



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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)



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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.



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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.



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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.



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Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.



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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.



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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.



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Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.



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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.



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Beware the Ides of March. (Julius Caesar)



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If music be the food of love play on. (Twelfth Night)



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What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet. (Romeo and Juliet)



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As merry as the day is long. (Much Ado about Nothing)



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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!



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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.



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There's many a man has more hair than wit.



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The valiant never taste of death but once.



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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.



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To be, or not to be: that is the question. (Hamlet)



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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. (Henry IV, Part 2)



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Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (The Tempest)



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What light through yonder window breaks. (Romeo and Juliet)