Inspiring Quotes by William Shakespeare - Page 2

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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear"

"Speak low, if you speak love"

"To do a great right do a little wrong"

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

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose"

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

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

"Expectation is the root of all heartache"

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun"

"The wheel is come full circle"

"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise"

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin"

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention"

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come"

"There is no darkness but ignorance"

"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it"

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

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge"

"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough"

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short"

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

"The attempt and not the deed confounds us"

"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt"

"Parting is such sweet sorrow"

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound"

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"

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

"O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"

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

"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

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

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue"

"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"

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage"

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above"

"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct"

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness"

"Death is a fearful thing"

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another"

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

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round"

"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike"

"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural"

"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul"

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent"

"I was adored once too"

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart"

"I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man"

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