Quotes from William Shakespeare

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.