Quotes from William Shakespeare

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

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.

He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

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

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

A man can die but once.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever