Quote

I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Reputed
Therefore
Silence
Saying
Wise
Nothing

More quotes by William Shakespeare

Image
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
William Shakespeare
Image
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
William Shakespeare
Image
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
William Shakespeare
Image
Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!
William Shakespeare
Image
When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men for thus sings he, Cuckoo Cuckoo, cuckoo O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.
William Shakespeare
Image
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
William Shakespeare
Image
Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
William Shakespeare
Image
Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.
William Shakespeare
Image
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
William Shakespeare
Image
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening.
William Shakespeare
Image
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
William Shakespeare
Image
I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
William Shakespeare
Image
We may outrun By violent swiftness And lose by over-running.
William Shakespeare
Image
I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
William Shakespeare
Image
You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
William Shakespeare
Image
A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?
William Shakespeare
Image
'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
William Shakespeare
Image
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
William Shakespeare
Image
Two may keep counsel putting one away!
William Shakespeare
Image
An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye Give him a little earth for charity!
William Shakespeare