Unlock the timeless wisdom of William Shakespeare with “The Bard’s Best: 50 Inspiring William Shakespeare Quotes.” Immerse yourself in the words of the master playwright and let his profound insights and poetic brilliance captivate your soul. This collection showcases Shakespeare’s most inspiring and thought-provoking quotes, offering a glimpse into his genius. From love and life to tragedy and triumph, these 50 quotes will leave you inspired, motivated, and in awe of the literary legacy left behind by the Bard himself.
William Shakespeare Quotes
1- “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.” -William Shakespeare
2- “Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!” -William Shakespeare
3- “Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” -William Shakespeare
4- “Now is the winter of our discontent” -William Shakespeare
5- “Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o’erflourished by the devil.” -William Shakespeare
6- “Live, love and let be” -William Shakespeare
7- “The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.” -William Shakespeare
8- “Look on beauty, And you shall see ’tis purchased by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it.” -William Shakespeare
9- “I have not slept one wink.” -William Shakespeare
10- “Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature’s own sweet and cunning hand laid on.” -William Shakespeare
11- “And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -William Shakespeare
12- “I am fortune’s fool” -William Shakespeare
13- “When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.” -William Shakespeare
14- “The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e’ er the sun shone bright on.” -William Shakespeare
15- “He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.” -William Shakespeare
16- “Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.” -William Shakespeare
17- “Pray you now, forget and forgive.” -William Shakespeare
18- “They do not love that do not show their love.” -William Shakespeare
19- “Beauty’s a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish’d once, for ever’s lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.” -William Shakespeare
20- “Nothing will come of nothing.” -William Shakespeare
21- “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” -William Shakespeare
22- “Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.” -William Shakespeare
23- “Tis neither here nor there.” -William Shakespeare
24- “Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.” -William Shakespeare
25- “Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart…If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.” -William Shakespeare
26- “For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?” -William Shakespeare
27- “Friendship is constant in all other things” -William Shakespeare
28- “Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known.” -William Shakespeare
29- “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.” -William Shakespeare
30- “A little more than kin, and less than kind.” -William Shakespeare
31- “She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” -William Shakespeare
32- “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.” -William Shakespeare
33- “Beauty lives with kindness.” -William Shakespeare
34- “Love’s stories written in love’s richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.” -William Shakespeare
35- “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!” -William Shakespeare
36- “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.” -William Shakespeare
37- “If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, ‘This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces.’” -William Shakespeare
38- “Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.” -William Shakespeare
39- “The course of true love never did run smooth.” -William Shakespeare
40- “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.” -William Shakespeare
41- “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve” -William Shakespeare
42- “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.” -William Shakespeare
43- “If music be the food of love, play on.” -William Shakespeare
44- “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.” -William Shakespeare
45- “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” -William Shakespeare
46- “The golden age is before us, not behind us.” -William Shakespeare
47- “Strong reasons make strong actions.” -William Shakespeare
48- “Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.” -William Shakespeare
49- “Brevity is the soul of wit.” -William Shakespeare
50- “When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” -William Shakespeare
