William Shakespeare
293 quotations
I will praise any man that will praise me.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy of the flatterer.
Lord, what fools these mortals be.
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
He is not great who is not greatly good.
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.
Patch grief with proverbs.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.