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Action

• Action is eloquence.
• Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
• It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
• Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
• Strong reasons make strong actions.
• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
• Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
• Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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Being yourself

• God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
• Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

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Helping

• ‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

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Goodness

• A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.
• An overflow of good converts to bad.
• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.  

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Virtue

• Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
• Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
• Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
• Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

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Conscience

• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
• A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
• Conscience is a thousand swords.
• Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
• My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

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Right speech

• Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
• The saying is true “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

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Integrity

• This above all; to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
• To thine own self be true.

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Honesty

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
• No legacy is so rich as honesty.
• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
• Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
• Though I am not naturally honest I am so sometimes by chance.

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Love

• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
• Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
• Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.
• Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
• If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.
• I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit’s not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full.
• Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
• Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
• Love is too young to know what conscience is.
• Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
• Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
• My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give thee, the more I have, For both are infinite.
• The course of true love never did run smooth.
• They do not love that do not show their love.
• The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
• Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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Kindness

• I must be cruel, only to be kind.

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Self-love

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

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Friendship

• Strive mightily but eat and drink as friends.
• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

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Truth

• It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
• Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
• Time’s glory is to command contending kings, to unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

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Wisdom

• A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
• Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

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Inner wisdom

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

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Knowledge

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

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Self-knowledge

• Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

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Learning

• I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

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Experience

• Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.
• Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
• I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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Listening

• Listen to many, speak to a few.
• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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Following your own advice

• It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

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Conversation

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

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Destiny

• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
• There’s a divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.

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Fate

• Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe; What is decreed must be; and be this so.
• It is the stars, the stars above us govern our conditions.
• God! that one might read the book of fate.
• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

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Peace

• Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
• A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

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Unity

• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

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Honor

• But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
• Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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Potential

• Ophelia: We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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Brevity

• Brevity is the soul of wit.
• Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

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Letting go of the past

• What’s done can’t be undone.
• What is past is prologue.
• Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that is gone.

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Contentment

• My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
• Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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Patience

• How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
• No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
• Who can be patient in extremes?
• Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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Perception and interpretation

• There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
• He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

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Health

• A light heart lives long.

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Ambition

• Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
• Virtue is choked with foul ambition.
• Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other side.

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Winning

• Nothing can seem foul to those who win.

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Mastery

• When the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.

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Excellence

• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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Greatness

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

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Using time well

• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
• Let every man be master of his time.
• We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
• Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
• Time … thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

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Discretion

• The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

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Mercy

• Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
• Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.
• The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

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Boldness

• Boldness be my friend.
• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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Courage

• To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.

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Safety and security

• Security is the chief enemy of mortals.
• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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Silence

• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
• Give thy thoughts no tongue.
• The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

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Punctuality 

• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

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Equality

• If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

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Loyalty

• Master, go on, and I will follow thee to the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

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Life as a play

• I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
• This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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Fortune

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
• Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

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Temptation

• ‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
• Tempt not a desperate man.
• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

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Excess

• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.
• Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

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Enemies

• ‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
• Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

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Envy

• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
• Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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Jealousy

• And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.
• But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they’re jealous. ‘Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
• O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
• So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.

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Foolishness

• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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Worry

• I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
• Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
• To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

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Ignorance

• I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
• There is no darkness but ignorance.

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Dishonesty

• Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.

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Ingratitude

• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot.
• Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand for lifting food to it.
• How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!
• I hate ingratitude more in man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
• Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ungrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude.
• Ingratitude; thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou showest thee in a child, than the sea monster.

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Excuses

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

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Suspicion

• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

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Anger

• I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.
• Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
• My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.
• O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

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Grief

• Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.
• Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
• Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.
• If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

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Delay

• Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.
• Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
• In delay there lies no plenty.

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Avarice

• This avarice sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeding lust.

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Sins

• Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
• By that sin fell the angels.
• But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
• How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
• The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

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Danger

• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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Goodbyes

• Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
• Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well.
• Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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Cowardice

• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
• Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

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Judgement and fault finding

• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

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Life as a struggle

• Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
• God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

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Lying

• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

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Hatred

• In time we hate that which we often fear.

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Expectation

• Expectation is the root of all heartache.
• Expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet that it enchants my sense.
• Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.

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Fear

• Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
• Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
• Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
• Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
• Cowards die many times before their deaths / The valiant never taste of death but once.
• Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
• Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
• To fear the worst oft cures the worse.

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Hope

• The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

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Revenge

• Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge had stomach for them all.
• Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

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Falsehood and illusion

• O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
• In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
• Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

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Loss

• Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

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Deception

• O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

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Haste

• Haste is needful in a desperate case.
• Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.
• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
• Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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Fame and reputation

• Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

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Doubt

• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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Busyness

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

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Pride

• He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
• He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer.
• My pride fell with my fortunes.

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Misfortune and adversity

• ‘Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
• When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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Fatigue

• Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

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Cooking

• ‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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Wine

• A man cannot make him laugh – but that’s no marvel; he drinks no wine.
• Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
• Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
• I am falser than vows made in wine.
• thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

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Nature

• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

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Sleep

• He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.
• Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
• We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

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Music

• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
• If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

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Death

• All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
• Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
• Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.
• Golden lads and girls all must / As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
• Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
• Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, and look on death itself.
• The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.
• The valiant never taste of death but once.

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God

• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

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Hell

• Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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Money

• If money go before, all ways do lie open.
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
• For I can raise no money by vile means.
• Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.

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Seasons and weather

• But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
• April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
• How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December’s bareness everywhere!  
• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
• Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.
• Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, thou dost not bite so nigh, as benefits forgot.
• Every cloud engenders not a storm.
• For the rain it raineth every day.
• Winter tames man, woman and beast.

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Seduction

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

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Kissing

• Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made for kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
• Were kisses all the joys in bed one woman would another wed.

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Marriage

• Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
• Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
• curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
• Were kisses all the joys in bed, one woman would another wed.

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Parenting

• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
• It is a wise father that knows his own child.
• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

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Age and youth

• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
• 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, his acts being seven ages.
• I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
• So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
• Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
• Youth is full of sport, age’s breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
• To me, fair friend, you never can be old for as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.

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Words

• A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.
• Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
• Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
• Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
• Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
• Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

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More thoughts

• All things are ready if our minds be so.
• And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
• And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish’d from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish’d from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
• Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
• For my part, it was Greek to me.
• Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
• Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
• He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
• He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
• How well he’s read, to reason against reading!
• I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
• I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
• I dote on his very absence.
• I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.
• Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
• Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
• Nothing can come of nothing.
• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!
• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
• Striving to be better, oft we mar what’s well.
• Such as we are made of, such we be.
• The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
• The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
• The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
• The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
• The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
• The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.
• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
• The wheel is come full circle.
• There’s many a man has more hair than wit.
• There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
• Though she be but little, she is fierce.
• Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.
• To be, or not to be, that is the question.
• To do a great right do a little wrong.
• Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
• Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
• We may outrun, by violent swiftness, that which we run at, and lose by over-running.
• We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
• When I was green in judgment.
• Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

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• I think Shakespeare is overrated. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.”  H.L.Mencken, on William Shakespeare
• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”   Orson Welles
• Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!”  Derek Jarman

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