William Shakespeare
293 quotations
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Make not your thoughts you prisons.
There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Thought is free.
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.
Love all, but trust a few.
While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live.
When valor preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Men's vows are women's traitors!
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.