“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
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.”
Source: Titus Andronicus. Pericles. Glossarial index
“For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog.”
“Men have marble, women waxen, minds.”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Source: Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet. King Lear
Source: The Works of Shakespear: Tragedies: Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Glossary
“I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.”
Source: The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)
“Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.”
Source: King John
“Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1
“Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.”
Source: Standup Shakespeare
“If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“The will of man is by his reason sway'd.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare
“A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man.”
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
Source: The Plays of Shakespeare ; The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations
“Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?”
Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems
“We must every one be a man of his own fancy.”
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
“Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man Still to remember wrongs?”
Source: Coriolanus
“For there's no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman's part.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.”
“A man I am cross'd with adversity.”
Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes
“Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?”
Source: Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays
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
“O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.”
“A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.”
“O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.”
Source: Shakespere's Werke
Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.”
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Second Series
Source: King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series
Source: King Richard II: Third Series
Source: The Oxford Shakespeare: Richard II
“O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!”
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
“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators