Quotes by William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you.'

O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

I burn, I pine, I perish.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?

Love is merely a madness.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

Speak low, if you speak love.

A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make's love known.

Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

One half of me is yours, the other half yours—Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn.

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

She doth teach the torches to burn bright!

Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.

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 heart is ever at your service.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty.

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Though fortune may frown, courage can mend the broken crown.

To truly know another, one must first see the world through their borrowed spectacles.

Doubt is but the shadow of truth, elongated by the setting sun.

Words are but painted sails; the winds of intent determine their true course.

The stage of the world is vast, and each player enters with a script unwritten.

The truest prison lies not in stone walls, but in the walls we build around our own hearts.

Better to stumble forward, than to stand still in perfect fear.

A heavy purse often makes a light heart, though a wise man knows the difference.

A fleeting moment of joy is worth more than an age of regret.

A fool sees not his own folly, but judges it in others with a keen eye.

To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom, but to accept thyself is the end.

Though fortune may frown, a merry heart finds sunshine in the darkest corner.

A heavy purse doth oft make a light heart, but a lighter spirit makes a heavier purse.

Fortune favors not the idle hand, but the mind that dares to dream and the will that strives to achieve.