William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
Strong reasons make strong actions.
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.
For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies.
Soft pity enters an iron gate.
The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
O, had I but followed the arts!
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
A politician is one that would circumvent God.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Bow, stubborn knees!
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.