Thursday Thirteen 329: Words from The Bard

Yesterday, April 23, is the day celebrated as William Shakespeare’s birthday, though his actual birth date is unknown. In honor of The Bard's 450th birthday, here are the top thirteen Shakespearean quotes listed at Goodreads.

1. "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
― As You Like It


2. "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
― All's Well That Ends Well


3. "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
― A Midsummer Night's Dream


4. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
― Twelfth Night


5. "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


6. "Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."
― Hamlet


7. "I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"


8. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
― Julius Caesar

9. "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."
― As You Like It



10. "If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
― Twelfth Night


11. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
― Hamlet


12. "Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
― The Tempest


13. "We know what we are, but not what we may be."
Hamlet



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