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Death
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The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
-William Shakespeare
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The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
-William Shakespeare
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Debt / Borrow / Loan
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I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
-William Shakespeare
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Words pay no debts.
-William Shakespeare
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He that dies pays all his debts.
-William Shakespeare
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I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.
-William Shakespeare
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Deception/Lying
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
-William Shakespeare
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For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
-William Shakespeare
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Delinquency
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Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
-William Shakespeare
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Desires
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This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
-William Shakespeare
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Despair
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Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
-William Shakespeare
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O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
-William Shakespeare
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Diets and Dieting
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
-William Shakespeare
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Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.
-William Shakespeare
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Doubt
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
-William Shakespeare
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act 1 scene 4
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Dreams
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
-William Shakespeare
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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep. The Tempest
-William Shakespeare
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That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
-William Shakespeare
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Thought are but dreams till their effects are tried.
-William Shakespeare
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Effort
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Nothing can come of nothing.
-William Shakespeare
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Endurance
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Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
-William Shakespeare
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Engineer, Engineering
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For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
-William Shakespeare
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Envy / Jealousy
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Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
-William Shakespeare
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I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.
-William Shakespeare
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Books by and about William Shakespeare