William Shakespeare Quotes About Doubt

• Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentines Day

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [115]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Beacons

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1931, Oxford University Press

• I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Innocence, Accusation

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.308

• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

• O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
  Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

  William Shakespeare

  Relationship, Doubt, Green Eyes

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.68

• Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Change, Moon

  William Shakespeare (1834). “School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...: With Glossarial Notes, Selected from the Best Annotators”, p.273

• To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Doubt And Fear

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

• O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Doubt, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (2008). “Romeo and Juliet: Parallel Texts of Quarto 1 (1597) and Quarto 2 (1599)”, p.83, Associated University Presse

• Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Doubt, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.246, Classic Books Company

• Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Water, Doubt

  "The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With Remarks on His Life and Writings".

• To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Othello”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Brave, Soul

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 5

• No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Up Early, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.56, Courier Corporation

• Doubting things go ill often hurts more
  Than to be sure they do; for certainties
  Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,
  The remedy then born.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Past, Knowing

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.52

• Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Thieves, Might

• The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Tents

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Macbeth Play, Confined

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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