Having nothing, nothing can he lose.William Shakespeare
Quotes by Playwrights
Writers for the stage — Shakespeare's colleagues across the centuries. This page lists all 24 of them with their quote counts, followed by a selection of their most-shared lines.
Quotes by Playwrights
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.William Shakespeare
Speak low, if you speak love.William Shakespeare
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.William Shakespeare
Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.William Shakespeare
All the world is a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and entrances; Each man in his time plays many parts.William Shakespeare
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question.William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare

This above all: to thine own self be true.William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.William Shakespeare

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.William Shakespeare

Love is merely a madness.William Shakespeare

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.William Shakespeare
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