If you’re interested in Shakespeare quotes, we’ve got the all-time best William Shakespeare quotes for you. Shakespeare has the ability to poetically capture universal human emotions with overarching themes. He discussed love and death,  human nature, everyday truths with candor. Enjoy this Shakespeare quotes to gain inspiration and wisdom. 

We know what we are, but know not what we may be Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself Shakespeare

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs Shakespeare

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know Shakespeare

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change Shakespeare

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

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving Shakespeare

A young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief Shakespeare

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find Shakespeare

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts Shakespeare

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

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees Shakespeare

Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it Shakespeare

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

Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt Shakespeare

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

Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love Shakespeare

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

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them Shakespeare

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 Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head Shakespeare

I am one who loved not wisely but too well Shakespeare