Quotes by William Shakespeare

“ My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. ”

“ Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. ”

“ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ”

“ The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag’d to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another’s eye. ”

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

“ Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. ”

“ To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 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 an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

“ By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ Though she be but little, she is fierce! ”

“ Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. ”