William Shakespeare

Ambition He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One "Cowards die many times before their deaths; Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

And Brutus is an honourable man. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2 Art Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Bravery "Discretion is the better part of valour." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | origin: Falstaff: 'The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.' Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

The valiant never taste of death but once." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar, Act II, Sc. 2, line 32." Doubt Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4 Evil "But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil. And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, King Richard III

Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (II, i, 145-147) Fashion Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | "The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, 1598 Fate & Destiny Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | This is probably the source for: "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" Cassius to Brutus in act I, scene II Flattery

Expectation "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

He does me double wrong Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Richard II [Richard at act 3, sc. 2] Greatness & Great Things In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | and some have greatness thrust upon them. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V

trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare Life Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

Honesty "...the honour of a maid is her name; and Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | no legacy is so rich as honesty." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 3, Scene 5 Horses, Horse Racing So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. ...What a horse should have he did not lack, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | Save a proud rider on so proud a back. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: He

Signifying nothing. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V Scene V "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, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | His acts being seven ages." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, As You Like It If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear... Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

date is its entry into the Stationer's Register Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Epilogue, October 8, 1600 Literary "Angels and ministers of grace defend us. Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned, Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | That I will speak to thee." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Hamlet "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | They kill us for their sport." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, King Lear O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give it over; by the Lord, an I do not, I am a villain: I'll be damn'd for never a king's son in Christendom. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

Music Falstaff speaking to Prince Henry Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, act I, sc ii "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | Where most she satisfies." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Love O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; What's in a name? that which we call a rose Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | By any other name would smell as sweet... Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II Mankind, Man "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

the paragon of animals!--and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delighteth not me..." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The appetite may sicken, and so die. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

Mercy The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice... Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | The deeds of mercy... Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd (edited)

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Passion Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world... Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, iv) Religion "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? 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? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge! If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 1 (Shylock speaking), 1596 Self Respect Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

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-William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2 : Act 3, scene i Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more, Macbeth does murder sleep" the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, Henry V (prologue)

Chief nourisher in life's feast. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, King Lear, II.iv

Remember to have heard. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

Time -William Shakespeare, Macbeth [said by MacBeth at Act II, Scene 2] Suicide To die, to sleep -To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there's the respect Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

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That makes calamity of so long life. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I scene III

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Sleep

Theater

"O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Thunderstorms Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of torrid thunder Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! |

And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Engrave this

Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is, When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. And here have I the daintiness of ear To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string; But for the concord of my state and time Had not an ear to hear my true time broke. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | http://www.onlineliterature.com/shakespeare/ri chardII/19/ Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, King Richard II Act V Scene V

Wealth Not that I have the power to clutch my hand When his fair angels would salute by palm, But for my hand, as unattempted yet, Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | To say there is no vice but beggary. Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John - (Bastard at II, i) Work "Good-morrow to thee; welcome: Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge: To business that we love we rise betime, Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | And go to't with delight." Engrave this quote in Our Store! | Rate this Quote! | -William Shakespeare,