Poet Quotes

374 quotes in this collection

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

-- William Shakespeare

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

-- William Shakespeare

"Tempt not a desperate man."

-- William Shakespeare

"The ripest fruit first falls."

-- William Shakespeare

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."

-- William Shakespeare

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

-- William Shakespeare

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

-- William Shakespeare

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

-- William Shakespeare

"The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."

-- William Shakespeare

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me."

-- William Shakespeare

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

-- William Shakespeare

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."

-- William Shakespeare

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

-- William Shakespeare

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

-- William Shakespeare

"Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

-- William Shakespeare

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

-- William Shakespeare

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

-- William Shakespeare

"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

-- William Shakespeare

"Men of few words are the best men."

-- William Shakespeare

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

-- William Shakespeare

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

-- William Shakespeare

"But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail."

-- William Shakespeare

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

-- William Shakespeare

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

-- William Shakespeare
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