William Shakespeare quotes

1564–1616 · Stratford-upon-Avon, England

The better part of Valour, is Discretion; in the which better part, I haue saued my life.
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, p. 72 (printed page number, seen), right column; archive.org page n389
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)
Cowards dye many times before their deaths, The valiant neuer taste of death but once:
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · The Tragedie of Julius Caesar, p. 117 (printed page number, seen), left column; archive.org page n722
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)
All that glisters is not gold, Often haue you heard that told;…
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · The Merchant of Venice, p. 171 (printed page number, seen), foot of left column; archive.org page n186
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women, meerely Players; They haue their Exits and their Entrances, And one man in his time playes many parts, His Acts being seuen ages.
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · As you like it, p. 194 (printed page number, seen), left column; archive.org page n209
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)
To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creepes in this petty pace from day to day, To the last Syllable of Recorded time: And all our yesterdayes, haue lighted Fooles The way to dusty death. Out, out, breefe Candle, Life's but a walking Shadow, a poore Player, That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, And then is heard no more. It is a Tale Told by an Ideot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing.
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · The Tragedie of Macbeth, p. 150 (printed page number, seen), left column, Scena Quinta; archive.org page n755
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)
To be, or not to be, that is the Question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles,…
VerifiedWilliam Shakespeare
Source
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (the First Folio), 1623 · The Tragedie of Hamlet, p. 265 (printed page number, seen), foot of left column; archive.org page n770
Read at
Internet Archive (EEBO microfilm scan, STC 22273, of the 1623 First Folio, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London: Isaac Iaggard and Ed. Blount; page images carry the label Folger No. 7)