When we’re feeling cynical we often reach for this Life Quotes By Shakespeare:


“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”


Some William Life Quotes By Shakespeare are known for their beauty, some Life Quotes By Shakespeare for their everyday truths and some for their wisdom.


30 Of Life Quotes By Shakespeare Most Famous.

1. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

2. ‘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, Act 2, Scene 7)

3. ‘Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?‘

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

4. ‘Now is the winter of our discontent’

(Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1)

5. ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

(Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1)

6. ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks‘

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2)

7. ‘Beware the Ides of March.‘

(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2)

8. ‘Get thee to a nunnery.‘

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

9. ‘If music be the food of love play on.‘

(Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1)

10. ‘What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

11. ‘The better part of valor is discretion‘

(Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)

12. ‘To thine own self be true.‘

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

13. ‘All that glisters is not gold.‘

(The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 7)

14. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2)

15. ‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘

(Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)

16. ‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘

(Richard III, Act 5, Scene 4)

17. ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)

18. ‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)

19. ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ Thou art more lovely and more temperate.’

(Sonnet 18)

20. ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘

(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)

21. ‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘

(Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2)

22. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

(Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1)

23. ‘What light through yonder window breaks.’

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

24. ‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

(Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)

25. ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2)

26. ‘Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.’

(The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)

27. ‘A man can die but once.’

(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Part 2)

28. ‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’

(King Lear, Act 1, Scene 4)

29. ‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’

(Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2)

30. ‘If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?’

(The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)


When we’re feeling cynical we often reach for this Life Quotes By Shakespeare: