Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

William Shakespeare

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

William Shakespeare

Let each man do his best.

William Shakespeare

Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

William Shakespeare

If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.

William Shakespeare

For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.

William Shakespeare

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?

William Shakespeare

We must every one be a man of his own fancy.

William Shakespeare

The will of man is by his reason sway'd.

William Shakespeare

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

William Shakespeare

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.

William Shakespeare

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

William Shakespeare

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

William Shakespeare

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

William Shakespeare

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

William Shakespeare

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

William Shakespeare

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

William Shakespeare

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

William Shakespeare

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.

William Shakespeare

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

William Shakespeare

Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

William Shakespeare

I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

William Shakespeare

But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

William Shakespeare

The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.

William Shakespeare

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

William Shakespeare

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

William Shakespeare

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

William Shakespeare

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite, Encompassed with thy lustful paramours, Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

William Shakespeare

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.