He is well paid That is well satisfied. Merchant of Venice Act IV Sc.
To thine ownself be true then canst thou be false to any man.
Our doubts are traitors and make us loose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Measure for Measure ActI.Sc.5
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
THIRD FISHERMAN: Master I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. FIRST FISHERMAN: Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones. Pericles Act II Sc. 1
They do not love that do not show their love.
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
I am at war twixt will and will not.
Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content,Than to be perk'd up in a glittering grief, And wear a golden sorrow. Henry VIII Act II Sc. 3
I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities A still and quiet conscience.
Violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short. Richard II Act. II Sc. 1
How far your eyes may pierce, I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. King Lear Act I. Sc. 4
They say, best men are molded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband. Measure for Measure Act V Sc. 1
Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro, as tis multitude? Henry VI Act. IV sc. 8
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy? Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week Or sells eternity for a toy? For one sweet grape, who would the vine destroy? Of what found beggar but to touch the crown, Would with the scepter straight be stricken down?
Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends...
Action is eloquence.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in misery.
Lawless are they that maketh their wills their law.
We must not stint our necessary actions, in the fear to cope malicious censurers. Henry VIII ACT 1 SC.2
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. King Lear Act II Sc. 1
An old man is twice a child. Hamlet Act II Sc.2
Strong reasons make strong actions. King John Act III Sc. 4
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Take all the swift advantage of the hours.
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. Romeo and Juliet. Act 1V Sc. 5
All that glitters is not gold. Merchant of Venice ActII. Sc.7
Modest doubt is call'd The Beacon of the wise.
You have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness.
He lives in fame that died in virtues cause.
Go to your bosom; knock there; and ask your heart what it doth know. Measure for Measure Act II Sc. 2
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
O, cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook! Measure for Measure ActII Sc.4
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
Il saggio sa di essere stupido, è lo stupido invece che crede di essere saggio.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more.