William Shakespeare
293 quotations
How use doth breed a habit in man!
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
There is a history in all men's lives.
People usually are the happiest at home.
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]
The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.
We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
There is no darkness, but ignorance.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
Much Ado About Nothing,
I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
No legacy is so rich as honestly.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
My salad days, when I was green in judgment.
Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]