Lines by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet · 1564–1616
William Shakespeare wrote about forty plays and more than 150 sonnets in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. His lines about ambition, grief and love are still spoken on stages in almost every language.
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, Act 1, Scene 3
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.
Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2