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Quotes By William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare

Apr 23, 1564 - Apr 23, 1616

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

A girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Silence is the perfect herald of joy.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

The leopard does not change his spots.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

If your mind dislike anything, obey it.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.