“Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.”
“You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.”
Source: Othello
“Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!
I dare damnation: To this point I stand,--
That both the worlds I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.”
Source: THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.: CONTAINING, KING RICHARD II. THE FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. THE SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.. VOLUME the FIFTH
“I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.”
Source: Henry IV
“Hold, or cut bowstrings.”
“We must not stint
Our necessary actions in the fear
To cope malicious censurers, which ever,
As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new-trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing.”
Source: King Henry VIII, Or, All is True
“I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;
Speak and look back, and pry on every side,
Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,
Intending deep suspicion.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard III
“Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them.”
“Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare
“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.”
Source: Hamlet: Third Series
“But fish not with this melancholy bait
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.”
“Beauty lives with kindness.”
“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”
“A book? O, rare one,
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“O, let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love, and look for recompense,
More than that tongue that more hath more expressed.”
“For the success,
Although particular, shall give a scantling
Of good or bad unto the general;
And in such indexes, although small pricks
To their subsequent volumes, there is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.”
“Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,
Ang'ring itself and others.”
Source: King Lear
“A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
“Gently to hear, kindly to judge.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.”
Source: CliffsComplete King Henry IV
“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.”
“Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's.”
“The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.”
“A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“He that dies this year is quit for the next.”
“England is safe, if true within itself.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.”
“It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.”
“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
“Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”
Source: The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]
“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”
“Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.”
Source: Coriolanus
“Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Julius Cæser. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Titus Andronicus. Pericles
“Fortune is merry,
And in this mood will give us anything.”
“Friendship is full of dregs.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
This life is most jolly.”
“Friendship's full of dregs.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Gold--what can it not do, and undo?”
Source: Arden Shakespeare Complete Works
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“God is our fortress, in whose conquering name
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.”
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
“Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies, Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. and Edmond Malone, Esq
“When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.”
Source: Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Taming of the shrew. Comedy of errors. Merchant of Venice. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost. As you like it. Winter's tale. All's well that ends well
“Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.”
Source: Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind
“I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.”
Source: Macbeth
“All offences come from the heart.”
Source: The chronicle history of Henry the Fift. 1608. The contention of the two famous houses of Lancaster and Yorke, in two parts (no date) The tragedie of Richard the Third. 1612. The most lamentable tragedie of Titus Andronicus. 1611. The history of Troylus and Cresseida. 1609
“A good heart 'is worth gold.”
“That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels I return again,
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
