William Shakespeare
293 quotations
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends.
Nothing can seem foul to those who win.
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Action is eloquence.
O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.
Conscience does make cowards of us all.
He that is well paid is well satisfied.