Popular Quotes Through Time

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

There are three people in yourself:Who people think you are, Who you think you are, and who you really are.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

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! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The bitter clamor of two eager tongues.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it.