Quotes to inspire and reflect

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Small to greater matters must give way.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.

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

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

Every man has business and desire, such as it is.

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

Love truth, and pardon error.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, -- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

I dote on his very absence.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

Your hearts are mighty; your skins are whole.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

This is the short and the long of it.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

Come not within the measure of my wrath.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

My library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2 #3361 From the still-vexed Bermoothes.

Fill all thy bones with aches.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind.

I would fain die a dry death.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.