Quotes by Subject: Shakespeare
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Sweet are the uses of adversity... | |||
Boldness be my friend. | |||
Readiness is all. | * | ||
I dote on his very absence. | |||
What's past is prologue. | |||
No profit grows where there is no pleasure ta'en. | |||
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad. | |||
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. | |||
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. | * | ||
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. | |||
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life. | |||
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]. | |||
Having nothing, nothing can he lose. | |||
Love all, trust a few; Do wrong to none. | |||
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. | * | ||
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves. | |||
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | |||
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. | |||
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. | * | ||
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? | |||
Everything that grows holds in perfection but a moment. | |||
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. | |||
My pride fell with my fortunes. | |||
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich. (Taming of the Shrew) | |||
Brevity is the soul of wit. (Hamlet) | |||
We are such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (The Tempest) | |||
Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. (Twelfth Night) | |||
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, Good and ill together. (All's Well That Ends Well) | |||
The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Night's Dream) | |||
Come, sit by my side, and let the world slip, We shall ne'er be younger. (The Taming of the Shrew) | |||
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. | |||
O, I am fortune's fool! (Romeo & Juliet) | |||
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty, still (Sonnet 104) | * | ||
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. (Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2) | |||
Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast. (Romeo and Juliet) | |||
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. | |||
I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. | |||
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. | |||
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land. | |||
All things are ready, if our minds be so. | * | ||
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. | |||
How my achievements mock me! | |||
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players | * | ||
If you stop working at a career, it goes away. When things are good, that's when you have to work harder, because otherwise it will disappear. And if you don't work toward it, you're not really appreciating what you've got. | |||
*indicates a past Quote of The Week
