We’ve collected twenty of the greatest William Shakespeare quotes for your entertainment and inspiration. Enjoy!
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
– William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
– William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
– William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
– William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
– William Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
– William Shakespeare
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
– William Shakespeare
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
– William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
– William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
– William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
– William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
– William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
– William Shakespeare
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
– William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
– William Shakespeare
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