Best Shakespeer Quotes

The best Shakespeare quotes are timeless and powerful expressions of human emotion and experience, from the contemplation of life's biggest questions in "To be or not to be" to the challenges of love in "The course of true love never did run smooth", and the warning against being deceived by appearances in "All that glitters is not gold."
Here are a few examples of Shakespeare quotes:

1. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them
2. We know what we are, but know not what we may be
3. Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head
4. Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
5. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
6. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
7. How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
8. Nothing can come of nothing
9. How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world
10. What's done can't be undone
11. Though she be but little, she is fierce
12. No legacy is so rich as honesty
13. This above all; to thine own self be true
14. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me
15. The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
16. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose
17. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin
18. What is past is prologue
19. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast
20. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
21. Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after
22. Neither a borrower nor a lender be
23. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
24. I bear a charmed life
25. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself
26. Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds
27. In time we hate that which we often fear
28. Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise
29. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come
30. Boldness be my friend
31. Many a true word hath been spoken in jest
32. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds
33. The Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape
34. Thought is free
35. April hath put a spirit of youth in everything
36. Summer's lease hath all too short a date
37. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners
38. The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
39. Men should be what they seem
40. He jests at scars that never felt a wound
41. I would not wish any companion in the world but you
42. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting
43. Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love
44. I am one who loved not wisely but too well
45. A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief
46. 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
47. They do not love that do not show their love
48. I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest
49. Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake
50. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
51. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
52. Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love
53. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind
54. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change
55. If music be the food of love, play on
56. Love is too young to know what conscience is
57. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night
58. Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it
59. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays
60. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
61. My pride fell with my fortunes
62. Better a witty fool than a foolish wit
63. Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
64. I dote on his very absence
65. There's many a man has more hair than wit
66. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once
67. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool
68. I am not bound to please thee with my answer