Since April 23rd is his birthday, here are 20 Shakespeare quotes that you're sure to enjoy to celebrate.
1. "This above all: to thine own self be true." ~ Hamlet
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
3. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." ~ Romeo and Juliette
4. "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." ~ Julius Ceasar
5. "Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. ~ Hamlet
7. "There's small choice in rotten apples." ~ Taming of the Shrew
8. "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. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell -- ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them." ~ The Tempest
9. "I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died. They say he made a good end." ~ Hamlet
10. "The miserable have no other medicine but only hope." ~ Measure for Measure
11. "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings." ~ King Richard
12. "Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?" ~ Hamlet
13. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." ~ Hamlet
14. "Things without all remedy should be without regard. What's done is done." ~ Macbeth
15. "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" ~ Richard III
16. "By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap to pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, or dive into the bottom of the deep, where fathom-line could never touch the ground, and pluck up drowned honour by the locks." ~ Henry IV
17. 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
18. "Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools." ~ As You Like It
19. "Be great in act, as you have been in thought. Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire." ~ King John
20. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ~ Hamlet
Humor, depth, pain and joy -- all of these are captured in Shakespeare's writings. As Hamlet told Horatio, there are more things in heaven and earth than he could dream of, and there is more depth to Shakespear quotes than many of us will ever realize. Happy Birthday to a master!
1. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
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, his acts being seven ages."
3. "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,or to take arms against a sea of troubles."
4. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!"
5. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr'd in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it."
6. "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once."
7. "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
8. "Why then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."
9. "All that glisters is not gold, often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold, but my outside to behold gilded tombs do worms enfold."
10. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
11. "The course of true love never did run smooth."
12. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones -- so let it be with Caesar."
13. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
14. "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits here hope is coldest, and despair most fits."
It takes a cultured and educated individual to appreciate the works of Shakespeare. As we celebrate the anniversary of his birth this month, let these 14 Shakespeare quotes serve as a remembrance of how brilliant his works and his imagination really were.
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