Shakespeare S Wisdom Quotes

#1. Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh,
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.

William Shakespeare

#2. Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.

William Shakespeare

#3. See you now your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth; and thus do we of wisdom and of reach, with windlasses and with assays of bias, by indirections find directions out.

William Shakespeare

#4. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

#5. The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.

William Shakespeare

#6. There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

William Shakespeare

#7. Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
Act II

William Shakespeare

#8. What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

#9. Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

William Shakespeare

#10. The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else.

John C. McGinley

#11. So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

William Shakespeare

#12. Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

#13. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

#15. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

William Shakespeare

#16. A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

William Shakespeare

#17. Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

William Shakespeare

#18. After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare
Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14

William Shakespeare

#20. Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.
Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

#21. I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. - From Hamlet by Shakespeare

Matthew Quick

#22. Shakespeare had it right all along: Love will kill you in the end.

Raquel Cepeda

#23. My soul is in the sky.

William Shakespeare

#24. She captured the spot of my world's centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.

Richard Ronald Allan

#25. To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

#26. Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste.

William Shakespeare

#27. Shakespeare and his few peers invented all of us.

Harold Bloom

#28. I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace.

William Shakespeare

#29. Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;
Filths savour but themselves ...

William Shakespeare

#30. Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.

William Shakespeare

#31. Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.

William Shakespeare

#32. Alas, my lord, your wisdom is consumed in confidence.

William Shakespeare

#33. With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.

William Shakespeare

#34. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock

#35. I think there's as much profundity and wisdom in Shakespeare, more so in fact, than those in the Bible.

Steve Coogan

#36. With purpose to be dressed in an opinion of wisdom gravity profound conceit as who should say 'I am Sir Oracle and when I ope my lips let no dog bark.' 1.1

William Shakespeare

#37. For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it and sets it light.

William Shakespeare

#38. He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

William Shakespeare

#39. Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

William Shakespeare

#40. There are a sort of men, whose visages
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond;
And do a willful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit;
As who should say, I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

William Shakespeare

#41. Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

#42. I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

William Shakespeare

#43. Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it.

William Shakespeare

#44. Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster.

William Shakespeare