“Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best.”
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
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“When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”
Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby
Source: As you like it. All's well that ends well
Source: The Dramatic Works
“Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest.”
Source: Twelfth Night Or What You Will
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of Dr. S. Johnson, George Steevens, Esq., and Isaac Reed, Esq.; with Explanatory and Glossarial Notes, a Sketch of His Life, an Essay on His Writings, and a Literary and Historical Notice Prefixed to Each Play
“This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.”
Source: The Plays of Shakspeare
“To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?”
Source: An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare; Calculated to Point Out the Different Meanings to which the Words are Applied. By the Rev. Samuel Auscough ..
Source: King Lear
“For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.”
Source: King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.”
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”
Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.”
“A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.”
Source: The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson
Source: King Richard III
Source: Henry V
Source: As You Like It: Third Series
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“The devil knew what he did when he made men politic; he crossed himself by it.”
“But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.”
“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
Source: Coriolanus
“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”
Source: Aphorisms from 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
“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