William Shakespeare
293 quotations
Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.
For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.
Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
There's small choice in rotten apples.
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Good counselors lack no clients.
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
The best safety lies in fear.
Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
In time we hate that which we often fear.
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.