The Ides of March (March 15th) are beginning words in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Here are some pithy quotes from Shakespeare.
Shakespeare Quotes
- Small things make base men proud.
- Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
- Every why hath a wherefore.
- For slander lives upon succession, forever housed where it gets possession.
- What you cannot as you would achieve, you must perforce accomplish as you may.
- An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.
- No profit grows where is no pleasure taken; in brief, sir, study what you most affect.
- There’s small choice in rotten apples.
- Tempt not a desperate man.
- Though she be but little, she is fierce.
- They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
- The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
- I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.
- Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?
- The better part of valor is discretion.
- There is a history in all men’s lives.
- Who doth ambition shun; And loves to live in the sun; Seeking the food he eats; And pleased with what he gets?
- All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
- He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.
- Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
- Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’nights : Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much :Such men are dangerous.
- The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.
- Words pay no debts.
- To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
- Good counselors lack no clients.
- We cannot all be masters.
- To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, is the next way to draw new mischief on.
- I swear, ‘tis better to be much abus’d, than but to know’t a little.
- Nothing can come of nothing.
- Mend your speech a little, lest it may mar your fortunes.
- Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
- Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.
- Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.
- I have not kept my square; but that to come shall all be done by the rule.
- The silence of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
- Press not a falling man too far.
- Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
I hoped you enjoyed these as much as I do.
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