“An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar.”
“What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.”
“The due of honor in no point omit.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare: comprising his dramatic and poetical works, complete
Source: Tempest
“If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.”
“Justice always whirls in equal measure.”
Source: Mr. William Shakespeare: His Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
“Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.”
Source: The dramatic works of Shakspeare: in six volumes
“Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost
“When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.”
Source: The complete works of Shakspere, with historical and analytical introductions to each play, also notes explanatory by J.O. Halliwell and other commentators, illustr. by portraits of actors of the age. [3 vols. With] The doubtful plays, with notes by H. Tyrrell
Source: The Comedy of Errors: Third Series
“I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.”
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
“Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.”
Source: The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens
“Wish chastely, and love dearly.”
Source: The Works of William Shakespeare: The taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. The winter's tale
“Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare
Source: All's Well That Ends Well
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.”
“There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.”
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series
Source: The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a memoir and essay on his genius by Barry Cornwall: also annotations and remarks by many writers, illustr. with engr. from designs by K. Meadows
“Misery makes sport to mock itself.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
Source: Cymbeline
“The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format
“How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
Source: Dramatic works: from copy left by George Steevens with glossary and notes, and sketch of the life of Shakespeare
“Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”
Source: The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character [&c.] with notes and scriptural references [compiled] by T. Price
“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.”
Source: Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.”
Source: An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
“Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare
“Passion makes the will lord of the reason.”
Source: Aphorisms from Shakespeare; arranged according to the plays,&c. With a preface and notes, etc. [By C. Lofft.]
“Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus