25 most inspiring William Shakespeare quotes

William Shakespeare is one of the most renowned writers in history. His works have been studied and admired for centuries, and his plays and sonnets are still performed today. He is credited with creating some of the most iconic lines in literature. William Shakespeare quotes are filled with wisdom and insight, providing readers with lessons on life, love, and loss. His words have inspired generations of people to think more deeply about the world around them. Reading William Shakespeare quotes can help us gain perspective on our own lives and the lives of those around us. They can also provide us with comfort and solace during difficult times. Here are some William Shakespeare quotes and sayings we have collected for you. Keep reading to learn more about life from these quotes.

I am not a morning person.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
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?
William Shakespeare
When that I was and a little tiny boy, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day.
William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime.
William Shakespeare
I am a man / More sinn'd against than sinning.
William Shakespeare
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare
When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
William Shakespeare
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, remembers me of all his gracious parts, stufs out his vacant garments with his form
William Shakespeare
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
William Shakespeare
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strained; 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.
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare
In her chamber, / Making a sermon of continency to her / And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul, / Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak, / And sits as one new-risen from a dream. / Away, away! / For everything is seal'd and done / That else leans on the heart.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Et tu, Brute?
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