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8803 Writer Quotes

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

Better Given Good Love
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It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

Above Conditions Govern Stars
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Attempt Doubts Fearing Good
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Action Admirable God Angel
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If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

Bleed Die Laugh Poison
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Adversity Precious Head Jewel
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Candle Deed Far Good
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To do a great right do a little wrong.
Great Little Right Wrong
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When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Born Come Cry Fools
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kin Makes Nature Touch
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If music be the food of love, play on.

Food Love Music Play
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Ear Every Voice Few
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If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Country Die Enough Fewer
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambitious Dream Merely Shadow
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Child Serpent Sharper Than
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Conscience Know Love Too
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Care Done Exempt Fear
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Crown Head Lies Uneasy
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

Crown Give Immortal Robe
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He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Giddy Round Thinks Turns
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Action Suit Word
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Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Bad Good Hanging Many
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What's done can't be undone.

Done Undone
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Speak low, if you speak love.

Love Low Speak You
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Age Cannot Endure Youth
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Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Fierce Little She Though
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Been Churches Cottage Easy
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Doing Done Joy Lies
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Doth Face False Heart
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Sweet Smell Name Rose
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Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Deeds Words Well Kind
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better Fool Foolish Than
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Honesty Legacy Rich
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Destiny Hold Our Stars
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

Boy Flies Gods Sport
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This above all; to thine own self be true.

Above Own Self Thine
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Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Boats Brings Fortune Some
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Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Alteration Finds Love Alters
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The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Robbed Smiles Something Steals
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Adversity Course Embrace Wise
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God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Another Face Given God
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Doth Now Time Waste
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Content Crown Enjoy Kings
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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Few Love None Trust
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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Day False Follow Man
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Fire Kindle Love Quench
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Cite Devil Purpose Scripture
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Brevity is the soul of wit.

Brevity Soul Wit
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Bad Either Good Makes
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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Literature Most Agreeable Ignoring
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