Best Shakespeare Quote Collection for Students and Literature Lovers

Discover 150+ famous Shakespeare quotes in simple English. Perfect for students learning literature and poetry lovers.

by Loudia MahartikaPublish Date 27 June 2025, 12:00 PM
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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

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  1. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
  2. Love is blind and lovers cannot see
  3. My love is as deep as the sea
  4. The more I give to you, the more I have
  5. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
  6. What is in a name? A rose smells sweet by any name
  7. If music be the food of love, play on
  8. Never doubt that I love you
  9. True love never runs smooth
  10. Love can change ugly things into beautiful ones
  11. My heart is ever at your service
  12. Love is a spirit all made of fire
  13. The course of true love has many problems
  14. Love is too young to know what conscience is
  15. Love looks with the mind, not the eyes

Life and Wisdom Quotes

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  1. All the world is a stage, and we are all actors
  2. To be or not to be, that is the question
  3. We know what we are, but not what we may become
  4. Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
  5. This above all, be true to yourself
  6. Better three hours too soon than one minute too late
  7. What cannot be avoided must be accepted
  8. Time is the greatest healer of all wounds
  9. Life is but a walking shadow
  10. Our doubts are traitors to our dreams
  11. The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves
  12. Hell is empty and all the devils are here
  13. Words without thoughts never reach heaven
  14. Being brief is the soul of wit
  15. A man can die only once

Greatness and Success Quotes

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  1. Some are born great, some achieve greatness
  2. Others have greatness thrust upon them
  3. Be not afraid of greatness
  4. No legacy is so rich as honesty
  5. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny
  6. Our destiny is in ourselves
  7. Better to be king of your silence than slave of your words
  8. Action is eloquence
  9. Strong reasons make strong actions
  10. The better part of valor is discretion
  11. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
  12. What is past is prologue
  13. We have seen better days
  14. Come what may, time runs through the roughest day
  15. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered

Friendship and Trust Quotes

 

Words are easy like the wind, faithful friends are hard to findA friend should bear his friend's weaknessesThose friends you have, keep them closeGive every man your ear, but few your voiceNeither a borrower nor a lender beKeep your friend under your own life's keyBe checked for silence, but never taxed for speechThe friends you choose reveal who you areTrue friends are like diamonds, precious and rareA faithful friend is the medicine of lifeFriendship is constant in all other thingsFriends are the family we choose for ourselvesGood company makes the journey shorterA true friend is one soul in two bodiesFriendship doubles our joy and divides our grief

Death and Mortality Quotes

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  1. Cowards die many times before their deaths
  2. The brave taste death only once
  3. Death is a necessary end
  4. It will come when it will come
  5. Golden boys and girls must come to dust
  6. Out, out, brief candle
  7. Life is but a walking shadow
  8. We are such stuff as dreams are made of
  9. Our little life is rounded with sleep
  10. To die is to sleep, perhaps to dream
  11. In that sleep of death, what dreams may come
  12. Death makes equal the high and low
  13. The good die young, but not always
  14. Death is the great leveler of all
  15. What we fear most often never happens

Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes

 

The fool thinks he is wiseThe wise man knows himself to be a foolIgnorance is the curse of GodKnowledge is the wing with which we fly to heavenLearning is a treasure that follows its owner everywhereThe empty vessel makes the loudest soundA wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friendsExperience is the teacher of all thingsWhat is learned in youth is carved in stoneThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of termsKnowledge without practice is uselessPractice without knowledge is dangerousThe more you know, the more you realize you don't knowWisdom comes from experience, experience from bad judgmentA learned man has always riches in himself

Nature and Beauty Quotes

 

Shall I compare you to a summer's dayYou are more lovely and more temperateRough winds shake the darling buds of MaySummer's lease has all too short a dateFull fathom five your father liesOf his bones are coral madeThose are pearls that were his eyesNothing of him that does fadeBut does suffer a sea-change into something rich and strangeThe earth has music for those who listenOne touch of nature makes the whole world kinBeauty itself does of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an oratorLord, what fools these mortals beThe moon shines bright on such a night as this

Courage and Bravery Quotes

 

Screw your courage to the sticking placeAnd we'll not failOnce more unto the breach, dear friendsOr close the wall up with our English deadCry havoc and let slip the dogs of warWe few, we happy few, we band of brothersDiscretion is the better part of valorCowards die many times before their deathThe valiant never taste of death but onceFortune favors the boldHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothingCourage is not the absence of fearBut action in spite of fearA brave man dies but once, a coward dies a thousand deathsIt is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life

Time and Change Quotes

 

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowCreeps in this petty pace from day to dayTime is the greatest teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupilsBetter late than never, but never late is betterTime and the hour run through the roughest dayWhat's past is prologueThe whirligig of time brings in his revengesTime travels in diverse paces with diverse personsTime is the nurse and breeder of all goodTime's glory is to calm contending kingsTo unmask falsehood and bring truth to lightTime will come and take my love awayBut love will find a wayThe time is out of jointO cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right

Famous Short Quotes

 

All that glitters is not goldOff with his headA horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horseEt tu, BruteSomething wicked this way comesFair is foul, and foul is fairDouble, double, toil and troubleIs this a dagger which I see before meOut, damned spotWhat's done cannot be undoneParting is such sweet sorrowA rose by any other name would smell as sweetRomeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou RomeoGood night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrowThe lady doth protest too much, methinks