Continuing our countdown of the top 50 William Shakespeare Quotes
Best William Shakespeare Quotes on Love, Life and More #18 – 1
18 Neither a borrower or a lender be. — Hamlet
17 A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise fool knows himself to be a fool. — As You Like It
16 Like as the waves make towards the pebb’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. — Sonnet 60
15 The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
14 “True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings. Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.” — richard III
13 To be, or not to be: that is the question” — Hamlet
12 “There is no darkness but ignorance.” — Twelfth Night
11 Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. – romeo and Juliet
10 "All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" -- As you like it 9 "love is blind, and lovers cannot see" -- The Merchant of Venice 8 "Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude" 7 "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer" -- King Henry IV Part III 6 "Small things make base men proud". -- King Henry VI Part II5 “This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” -- Hamlet
4 “The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation—that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.” -- richard II
3 It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -- Julius Caesar
2 How far the little candle throws its beam! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -- The Merchant of Venice
1 “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” -- Julius Caesar