William Shakespeare Day Quotations

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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

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

They do not love that do not show their love.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.

A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

Seek happy nights to happy days.W

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

The rain, it raineth every day.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff - Julius Caesar