Quotes by Shakespeare, William

"Security is the chief enemy of mortals."

Shakespeare, William on security   

"She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."

Shakespeare, William on seduction
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"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

Shakespeare, William on self-control   

"Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Shakespeare, William on self-respect
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"A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month."

Shakespeare, William on self-talk   

"Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."

Shakespeare, William on silence   

"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."

Shakespeare, William on sin   

"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."

Shakespeare, William on sin
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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

Shakespeare, William on sin   

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."

Shakespeare, William on slander   

"The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."

Shakespeare, William on smells   

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

Shakespeare, William on smile
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"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on smile
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"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

Shakespeare, William on sorrow   

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."

Shakespeare, William on spring   

"I do desire we may be better strangers."

Shakespeare, William on anger
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"How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant."

Shakespeare, William on strength   

"I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech."

Shakespeare, William on style   

"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

Shakespeare, William on success   

"Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."

Shakespeare, William on acting and actors   

"Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."

Shakespeare, William on acting and actors   

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
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"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -"

Shakespeare, William on beauty   

"What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?"

Shakespeare, William on bed   

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"For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."

Shakespeare, William on bereavement
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"I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me."

Shakespeare, William on bills   

"When we are born we cry that we are come.. to this great stage of fools."

Shakespeare, William on birth   

"O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."

Shakespeare, William on books - reading   

"For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know."

Shakespeare, William on bores and boredom   

"Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes."

Shakespeare, William on brevity   

"To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight."

Shakespeare, William on business   

"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking."

Shakespeare, William on caution   

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."

Shakespeare, William on caution   

"Art made tongue-tied by authority."

Shakespeare, William on censorship   

"Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none."

Shakespeare, William on ceremony   

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

Shakespeare, William on character
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"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

Shakespeare, William on character
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"I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged."

Shakespeare, William on charm   

"Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly."

Shakespeare, William on chastity