Sunday, March 29, 2009

Famous Shakespeare Quotes

Some of the Famous Shakespeare Quotes


Listen to many, speak to a few.


But love is blind, and lovers cannot see.
(Quoted in The Merchant of Venice)


A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.


Action is eloquence.


There is nothing either good or bad but thinking
makes it so.


When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
(Quoted in Hemlet)


Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.


You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.


Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.


Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.


I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.


This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.
(Quoted in The Taming of the Shrew)


When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.


To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.


Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.


Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.



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


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