Quotes from William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

Men of few words are the best men.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair:Hover through the fog and filthy air.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

"You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.

Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.

Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.

Make not your thoughts you prisons.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Words pay no debts.

He was ever precise in promise-keeping.

No legacy is so rich as honestly.

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Grief makes one hour ten