Quotes by William Shakespeare

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
(A Midsummer Night's Dream, I:1)

"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."
(Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.)

"The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers."
(II Henry VI, IV:2)

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!
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 and idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
(MacBeth, V:5)

"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."

"What's past is prologue."
(The Tempest, II, i)

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in batallions."
(Hamlet, IV:5)

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."