Inspiring Quotes by William Shakespeare - Page 2

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"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful"

"I dote on his very absence"

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing"

"I bear a charmed life"

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life"

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round"

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness"

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another"

"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"

"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy"

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains"

"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes"

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound"

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass"

"There is no darkness but ignorance"

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness"

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong"

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything"

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words"

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget"

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age"

"The wheel is come full circle"

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun"

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives"

"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough"

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion"

"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know"

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know"

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing"

"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements"

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing"

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come"

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart"

"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove"

"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me"

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"

"Its better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of"

"They do not love that do not show their love"

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired"

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one"

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world"

"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer"

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose"

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"

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