No more be griev’d at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud,
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.
~ William Shakespeare / Sonnet 35
William Shakespeare on Love
Then happy I that love and am beloved.
~ William Shakespeare / Sonnet 25
William Shakespeare on Love
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
~ A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare on Wisdom
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
~ As You Like It
William Shakespeare on Redemption
What mighty men misdo, they can amend.
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Blazes
The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Truth
…but in the end truth will out.
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on the Shortness of Life
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Curs
“… thy words are too precious to be cast away upon curs…”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Time
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Malice
“Men that make
Envy and crooked malice nourishment
Dare bite the best.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Loss
“Great lords, wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Reputations
“Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Perils
“You knew he walk’d o’er perils, on an edge,
More likely to fall in than to get o’er”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Enemies
“Here in these confines slily have I lurk’d,
To watch the waning of mine enemies”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Bragging
“Let him fear this; for it will come to pass
That every braggart shall be found an ass.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Sad Hours
“Ay me, sad hours seem long.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Wrongdoing
“An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Humanity
“How look I
That I should seem to lack humanity
So much as this fact comes to?”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Truth and Honour
“These are the vulgar tenders of false men,
That never pay the duty of their words.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Rumour
“Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Ignorance
“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Patience
“A fool’s bolt is soon shot.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Tyranny
“I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants’ fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Fate
“Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Good and Evil
“The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Self-Harm
“Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Evil
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Guilt
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Contentment
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Good and Evil
“but we must do good against evil.”
~ William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare on Thinking
“for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
~ William Shakespeare