“I see a man's life is a tedious one.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
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Famous William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Henry IV
“Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.”
Source: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete Poetry (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_
Source: Shakspere's Werke, herausg. und erklärt von N. Delius. [With] Nachträge und Berichtigungen
“Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.”
Source: Othello: Revised Edition
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
“I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats; If it be man's work, I'll do't.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3
Source: As You Like it
“I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
“Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.”
“O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.”
Source: Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare
“My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Source: The Comedy of Errors: Third Series
Source: Much Ado About Nothing
Source: The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
“O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.”
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
Source: The Third Part of King Henry VI
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary
“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”
Source: Hamlet
“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”
Source: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
“O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.”
“There's place and means for every man alive.”
Source: Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)
“Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling
“I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”