“A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.”
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
“Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.”
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: The dramatic works and poems of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of Steevens and Malone, with life, and historical, critical, and explanatory notices by A. Cunningham, a glossary and illustrations
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”
Source: The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)
“Man and wife, being two, are one in love.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes. To which is Now Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words
“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”
“There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.”
Source: The Beauties of Shakespeare; Selected from His Works. To which are Added, the Principal Scenes in the Same Author. The Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!”
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere
Source: William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
Source: As You Like it
Source: Macbeth
Source: Much Ado About Nothing; Hamlet
“...an old man is twice a child.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.”
“For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.”
Source: King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series
“Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.”
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.”
Source: Macbeth
“Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.”
Source: The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical
“Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
Source: Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VIII. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Antony and Cleopatra
“That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.”
Source: King Lear