William Shakespeare
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.Collection: Speak Less
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.Collection: Eye
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.Collection: Thinking
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.Collection: Eras
All the world is a stage and we are merely players.Collection: Player
Silence is the perfect herald of joy.Collection: Perfect
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.Collection: Heart
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.Collection: Art
Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life timeCollection: Winning
The Eyes are the window to your soulCollection: Eye
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.Collection: Can Not
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.Collection: Gone
I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.Collection: Love
Nothing comes from doing nothing.Collection: Doing Nothing
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.Collection: Fall
I wish you all the joy that you can wish.Collection: Happiness
You know who you are, but know not who you could be.Collection: Knows
Beauty lives with kindness.Collection: Beauty
Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrowCollection: Fighting
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!Collection: Sarcastic
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.Collection: Suffering
Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.Collection: Cutting
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.Collection: Mind
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.Collection: Causes