William Shakespeare Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. ...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known? Macbeth

2. A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. Hamlet

3. And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. A Midsummer Night's Dream

4. Be absolute with death. Either death or lifeShall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:If I do lose thee, I do lose a thingThat none but fools would keep. Measure for Measure

5. Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit. Twelfth Night

6. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. Romeo and Juliet

7. Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it. Romeo and Juliet

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

9. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, oh you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death! Romeo and Juliet

10. For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Romeo and Juliet

11. For she had eyes and chose me. Othello

12. For thy sweet love remembr'd such wealth bringsThat then, I scorn to change my state with kings.

13. For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me? Much Ado About Nothing

14. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. Romeo and Juliet

15. I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange? Much Ado About Nothing

16. I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth Macbeth

17. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. Much Ado About Nothing

18. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. Much Ado About Nothing

19. I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. Much Ado About Nothing

20. I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. As You Like It

21. I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,To die upon the hand I love so well. A Midsummer Night's Dream

22. If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ... Much Ado About Nothing

23. If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. Romeo & Juliet

24. If music be the food of love, play on,Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night

25. If music be the food of love, play on. Twelfth Night

26. Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. Twelfth Night

27. LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. Much Ado About Nothing

28. LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. Much Ado About Nothing

29. Let me be ignorant and in nothing good,But graciously to know I am no better. Measure for Measure

30. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring barque, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Great Sonnets