Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
William Shakespeare
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Shakespeare
Age: 51 †
Born: 1564
Born: April 26
Died: 1616
Died: April 23
Actor
Dramaturge
Playwright
Poet
Stage Actor
Writer
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
Shakespeare
The Bard
The Bard of Avon
William Shakspere
Swan of Avon
Bard of Avon
Shakespere
Shakespear
Shakspeare
Shackspeare
William Shake‐ſpeare
Children
Vain
Fantasy
Dreams
Brain
Talk
True
Begot
Dream
Juliet
Nothing
Idle
More quotes by William Shakespeare
Hold, or cut bowstrings.
William Shakespeare
You know that love Will creep in service where it cannot go.
William Shakespeare
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.
William Shakespeare
For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.
William Shakespeare
Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.
William Shakespeare
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
William Shakespeare
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
William Shakespeare
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare
Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
William Shakespeare
O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
William Shakespeare
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
William Shakespeare
This liberty is all that I request.
William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
William Shakespeare
Who can be patient in extremes?
William Shakespeare
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.
William Shakespeare
JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
William Shakespeare
I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
William Shakespeare
Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.
William Shakespeare
A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.
William Shakespeare
Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
William Shakespeare
