If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
- William Shakespeare

Hereafter, in a better world than this,I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
- William Shakespeare

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

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
- William Shakespeare

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

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
- William Shakespeare

The soul of this man is in his clothes.
- William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
- William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
- William Shakespeare

Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
- William Shakespeare

Strong reasons make strong actions.
- William Shakespeare

True is it that we have seen better days.
- William Shakespeare

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
- William 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.
- William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.
- William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
- William Shakespeare

We are advertis’d by our loving friends.
- William Shakespeare

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
- William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
- William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
- William Shakespeare

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.
- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

When I was green in judgment.
- William Shakespeare

While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
- William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
- William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
- William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
- William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
- William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.
- William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
- William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
- William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
- William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
- William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
- William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
- William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.
- William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
- William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
- William Shakespeare

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces.
- William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
- William Shakespeare

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