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

- William Shakespeare

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

- William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

- William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

- William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

- William Shakespeare

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?

- William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

- William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

- William Shakespeare

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.

- William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.

- William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

- William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.

- William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

- William Shakespeare

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

- William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

- William Shakespeare