Liputan6.com, Jakarta William Shakespeare wrote many beautiful words that people still love today. His plays and poems have given us some of the most famous quotes in English. These quotes talk about love, life, friendship, and many other important things. You can use these quotes to understand life better or to impress your friends and teachers.
Love and Romance Quotes
- Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
- Love is blind and lovers cannot see
- My love is as deep as the sea
- The more I give to you, the more I have
- Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
- What is in a name? A rose smells sweet by any name
- If music be the food of love, play on
- Never doubt that I love you
- True love never runs smooth
- Love can change ugly things into beautiful ones
- My heart is ever at your service
- Love is a spirit all made of fire
- The course of true love has many problems
- Love is too young to know what conscience is
- Love looks with the mind, not the eyes
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Life and Wisdom Quotes
- All the world is a stage, and we are all actors
- To be or not to be, that is the question
- We know what we are, but not what we may become
- Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
- This above all, be true to yourself
- Better three hours too soon than one minute too late
- What cannot be avoided must be accepted
- Time is the greatest healer of all wounds
- Life is but a walking shadow
- Our doubts are traitors to our dreams
- The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves
- Hell is empty and all the devils are here
- Words without thoughts never reach heaven
- Being brief is the soul of wit
- A man can die only once
Greatness and Success Quotes
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness
- Others have greatness thrust upon them
- Be not afraid of greatness
- No legacy is so rich as honesty
- It is not in the stars to hold our destiny
- Our destiny is in ourselves
- Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words
- Action is eloquence
- Strong reasons make strong actions
- The better part of valor is discretion
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
- What is past is prologue
- We have seen better days
- Come what may, time runs through the roughest day
- Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered
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Friendship and Trust Quotes
- Words are easy like the wind, faithful friends are hard to find
- A friend should bear his friend's weaknesses
- Those friends you have, keep them close
- Give every man your ear, but few your voice
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- Keep your friend under your own life's key
- Be checked for silence, but never taxed for speech
- The friends you choose reveal who you are
- True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare
- A faithful friend is the medicine of life
- Friendship is constant in all other things
- Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
- Good company makes the journey shorter
- A true friend is one soul in two bodies
- Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief
Death and Mortality Quotes
- Cowards die many times before their deaths
- The brave taste death only once
- Death is a necessary end
- It will come when it will come
- Golden boys and girls must come to dust
- Out, out, brief candle
- Life is but a walking shadow
- We are such stuff as dreams are made of
- Our little life is rounded with sleep
- To die is to sleep, perhaps to dream
- In that sleep of death, what dreams may come
- Death makes equal the high and low
- The good die young, but not always
- Death is the great leveler of all
- What we fear most often never happens
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Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes
- The fool thinks he is wise
- The wise man knows himself to be a fool
- Ignorance is the curse of God
- Knowledge is the wing with which we fly to heaven
- Learning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere
- The empty vessel makes the loudest sound
- A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends
- Experience is the teacher of all things
- What is learned in youth is carved in stone
- The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms
- Knowledge without practice is useless
- Practice without knowledge is dangerous
- The more you know, the more you realize you don't know
- Wisdom comes from experience, experience from bad judgment
- A learned man has always riches in himself
Nature and Beauty Quotes
- Shall I compare you to a summer's day
- You are more lovely and more temperate
- Rough winds shake the darling buds of May
- Summer's lease has all too short a date
- Full fathom five your father lies
- Of his bones are coral made
- Those are pearls that were his eyes
- Nothing of him that does fade
- But does suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange
- The earth has music for those who listen
- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin
- Beauty itself does of itself persuade
- The eyes of men without an orator
- Lord, what fools these mortals be
- The moon shines bright on such a night as this
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Courage and Bravery Quotes
- Screw your courage to the sticking place
- And we'll not fail
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends
- Or close the wall up with our English dead
- Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers
- Discretion is the better part of valor
- Cowards die many times before their death
- The valiant never taste of death but once
- Fortune favors the bold
- He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing
- Courage is not the absence of fear
- But action in spite of fear
- A brave man dies but once, a coward dies a thousand deaths
- It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life
Time and Change Quotes
- Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
- Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
- Time is the greatest teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils
- Better late than never, but never late is better
- Time and the hour run through the roughest day
- What's past is prologue
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
- Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons
- Time is the nurse and breeder of all good
- Time's glory is to calm contending kings
- To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light
- Time will come and take my love away
- But love will find a way
- The time is out of joint
- O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right
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Famous Short Quotes
- All that glitters is not gold
- Off with his head
- A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
- Et tu, Brute
- Something wicked this way comes
- Fair is foul, and foul is fair
- Double, double, toil and trouble
- Is this a dagger which I see before me
- Out, damned spot
- What's done cannot be undone
- Parting is such sweet sorrow
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo
- Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks