William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Report me and my cause aright.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.
'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?
If music be the food of love; play on.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]
We were not born to sue, but to command.
Remembrance of things past.
Every good servant does not all commands.
Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!
One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.
We have seen better days.
What is past is prologue.
Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]