William Shakespeare - Man Quotes

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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.

William Shakespeare
Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare
See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.

William Shakespeare
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

William Shakespeare
Of comfort no man speak:
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth;
Let's choose executors and talk of wills.

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

William Shakespeare
Jack shall have Jill;
Nought shall go ill;
The man shall have his mare again,
And all shall be well.

William Shakespeare
I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

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For there's no motion
That tends to vice in man, but I affirm
It is the woman's part.

William Shakespeare
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.

William Shakespeare
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

William Shakespeare
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

William Shakespeare
Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

William Shakespeare
As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

William Shakespeare
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

William Shakespeare
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.

William Shakespeare
No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

William Shakespeare
The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;
The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.

William Shakespeare
An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

William Shakespeare
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

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Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings! Come; unbutton here.

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O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?

William Shakespeare
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom: it is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty.

William Shakespeare