1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare – [Death and Dying]
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
William Shakespeare – [Lovers]
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
William Shakespeare – [Jokes and Jokers]
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare – [Death and Dying]
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare – [World]
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare – [Ambition]
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool — motley's the only wear.
William Shakespeare – [Comedy and Comedians]
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare – [Excuses]
And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
William Shakespeare – [Time and Time Management]
And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.
William Shakespeare – [Punishment]
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare – [Censorship]
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare – [Life and Death]
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare – [Ambition]
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
William Shakespeare – [Virtue]
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
William Shakespeare – [Action]
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare – [Greatness]
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
William Shakespeare – [Slander]
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. –
William Shakespeare – [Beauty]
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare – [Punctuality]
Beware of the ides of March.
William Shakespeare – [Prophecy]
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