He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. William Shakespeare (Love’s Labor’s Lost 5:1)
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. William Shakespeare (Henry V, 3:4)
Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! William Shakespeare (Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing 2:1)
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse;
borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease
is incurable. William Shakespeare (Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 2, 1:2)
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
William Shakespeare (Hamlet 1:3)
I am sure care’s an enemy to life. William Shakespeare (Sir Toby Belch, in Twelfth Night, 1:3)
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. William Shakespeare (Hamlet 3:4)
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security. William Shakespeare (Timon of Athens, 3:1)
O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, 5:1)
Custom calls me to ‘t.
What custom wills, in all things should we do ‘t,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o’erpeer.
William Shakespeare (Coriolanus 2:3)
But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing 2:iii)
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 2, 4:v)
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date. William Shakespeare (Sonnet 18)
Winter tames man, woman, and beast. William Shakespeare (Taming of the Shrew, 4:i)
When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, 2:ii)
Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare (Hamlet, 2:ii)
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, 1:iii)
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
But when they seldom come, they wished for come,
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 1, 1:ii)
On horror’s head horrors accumulate. William Shakespeare (Othello, 3:iii)
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare (Henry VI, Pt2)
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. William Shakespeare (King Henry VI. Part II. 3:ii)
Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, 3:i)
In a false quarrel there is no true valour. William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing, 5:i)
Thou wilt be a wilderness again,
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!
William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 2, 4:v)
Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats drily.
William Shakespeare (All’s Well That Ends Well, 1:i)
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?
William Shakespeare (Hamlet, 3:iii)
I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now.
William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, 3:iv)
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare (King Henry V, 4:3)
Mine honour is my life, both grow in one,
Take honour from me, and my life is done.
William Shakespeare (Richard II, 1:1)
The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy. William Shakespeare (Pericles, 1:2)
Slander,
Whose sting is sharper than the sword’s.
William Shakespeare (The Winter’s Tale, 2:3)
Appetite, a universal wolf. William Shakespeare