Quotes
Quotes - Shakespeare
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
Comparisons are odorous.
If I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!
O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
I never tempted her with word too large,
But, as a brother to his sister, show'd
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes.
For it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination,
And every lovely organ of her life,
Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate and full of life
Into the eye and prospect of his soul.
Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly.
The eftest way.
Flat burglary as ever was committed.
Condemned into everlasting redemption.
O, that he were here to write me down an ass!
A fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every thing handsome about him.
Patch grief with proverbs.
Men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel.
Charm ache with air, and agony with words.
'T is all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
Some of us will smart for it.
I was not born under a rhyming planet.
Done to death by slanderous tongues.
