100+ Cool Shakespeare Quotes That Go Viral in 2024

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Journey little book, sail thou upon the sea of his romance."

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew — for women are wise."

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

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

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely lovers."

"Come, gentle night; and give me back my Romeo."

"To be your maid is only my desire, and to be your wife, my endless fire."

"You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Powerful friends will give you everything; they’ll strip you of nothing but your enemies."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 'twere a careless trifle."

"The prince cannot be safe if the people fear him not."

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

"He who ascends to monarchy must find a way to descend."

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

"Let not our babble go through the world, lest we be laughed at even by the Martians."

"Crowns sit lightly when the heart is heavy."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"There’s daggers in men’s smiles."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"Who can be true to thee, when thou art false to thyself?"

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

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

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the public into a patriotic frenzy."

"I am not what I am."

"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"Men at some time are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"The fool thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"Our lives are composed of seconds, and every second counts."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!"

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

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

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"Conscience does make cowards of us all."

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief."

"There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow."

"Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."

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

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly."

"I am as valiant as Hercules."

"Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness, wherein the pregnant enemy does much."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow."

"He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?"

"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked."

"He that dies pays all debts."

"I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing."

"I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none."

"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes and braggart with my tongue!"

"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."

"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew — for women are wise."

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

"The clock in the tower strikes thirteen."

"How swift are springing hours when lovers' hands are tight in theirs!"

"They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most, become much more the better for being a little bad."

"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York."

"Things won are done; joy else comes tardy."

"The ripeness is all."

"Time doth transfix the flourish that time gives."

"How quickly time goes by when you're having fun."

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

"I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream—past the wit of man to say what dream it was."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."

"Is it possible to counterfeit affection?"

"And I, in dreams, behold his baby features."

"These are the forgeries of jealousy; and never, since the middle summer’s spring, met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead."

"Imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown."

"O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!"

"The king doth speak to thee, and he desires to spend his time no more in idle games."

"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead."

"In the most high and palmy state of Rome, a little ere the mightiest Julius fell, the graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."

"Methought I saw a serpent eat my heart."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on."

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

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"Fate, that kills the valiant, spared the vile."

"Aye, take him, and cut his throat in the church."

"Fortune brings in some boats that are hatched, not steered."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"If you seek Amyclas, look for him among the tombs."

"There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

"What fates impose, that men must needs abide."

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

"The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike."

"The appointed hour is come, and we must part."

"A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Why, then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

"Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."

"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed."

"The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."

"A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white."

"Wit, whither wilt thou lead me?"