William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright and is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets.
Where does one begin creating a list of memorable lines from his immortalized plays? Rather than choosing some of the famous longer passages, I have selected some shorter lines which provide some perspective on human nature:
-Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
-A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
-It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-Wisely and slow, they stumble who run fast.
-Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
-If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
-Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
-In time we hate that which we often fear.
Selected by quoteflections.
-Everything that grows holds in perfection but a moment.
-Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
-What is past is prologue.
-In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty.
-Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
-Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
-Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
-Expectation is the root of all heartache.
-Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
-Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.
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