Quotes by William Shakespeare

"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."

"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"

"Strong reasons make strong actions."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head."

"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war."

"The sands are number'd that make up my life."

"The soul of this man is in his clothes."

"The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute. "

"Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy."

"Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with."

"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."

"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."

"When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress."