60+ William Shakespeare Quotes That Will Leave You Inspired

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is an absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a lifetime.

Though she is but little, she is fierce.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Let me be who I am and seek not to alter me.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

This is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

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, signifying nothing.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The fault…is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

We suffer a lot from the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; one man in his time plays many parts.

And oftentimes excusing a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once.

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

Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt the truth to being a liar, but never doubt I love.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

I am one who loved not wisely but too well.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake.

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

They do not love that do not show their love.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

Love all, trust a few, and do wrong to none.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

A young woman in love always looks like a patient on a monument smiling at grief.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffering, it will set the heart on fire.

Love runs away from those chasing her, and for those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.

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, signifying nothing.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Climbing steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

All things are ready if our mind be so.

Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream.

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it,

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

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

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

All that glitters is not gold.

Beauty lives with kindness.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

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

Men should be what they seem.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

How poor are they that have no patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.