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Letter "W" » William Shakespeare Quotes
«They have a plentiful lack of wit»
«The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed; And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But coward-like with trembling terror die»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
coward, exceed, extreme, Fear and Trembling, trembling
«Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
evermore, exchequer
«Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
muffler, mufflers, painted, signify
«For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up»
«He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
finer, staple, staples, thread, verbosity
«A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by»
«There is a history in all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd; The which observ'd, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
as yet, beginnings, come to life, figuring, prophesy, Seeds, The Times
«My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand»
«When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff»
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