William Shakespeare Quotes

• The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Mind, Want

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• There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perception, Prison

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Idiot, Blind

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  Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak Less, Temperance, Shows

  William Shakespeare, Alfred Leslie Rowse (1984). “King Lear: modern text with introduction”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!
  But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Laughing, Sorrow

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• When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Hate, People

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• Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time

  William Shakespeare

  Winning, Games, Play

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• All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

  William Shakespeare

  Player, World, Stage

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• Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Mind

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• If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

  William Shakespeare

  Can Not, Ifs

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  The Eyes are the window to your soul

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Soul, Window

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

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Thieves, Might

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• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.226

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• Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Mistress, Mirth

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Marketing, Treasure

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• Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Nothing comes from doing nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Doing Nothing, Action

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• No legacy is so rich as honesty.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  1604-5 Mariana to Diana. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 3, sc.5, l.12-13.

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• Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

  William Shakespeare

  Fighting, Giving, Gone

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• Beauty lives with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Kindness, Beauty Of Life

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

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

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Time, Three

  William Shakespeare (1784). “Stockdale's edition of Shakespeare, with explanatory notes”, p.56

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• Life's 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Excellence, Has Beens

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.3

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• Listen to many, speak to a few.

  William Shakespeare

  Speak

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