Quotes from William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils."
(from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1)

There's place and means for every man alive.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.

I am not in the roll of common men.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.

Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.