Men Quotes by William Shakespeare

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

— William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men's lives.

— William Shakespeare

I am not in the roll of common men.

— William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men.

— William Shakespeare

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

— William Shakespeare

Time is the king of men.

— William Shakespeare

...an old man is twice a child.

— William Shakespeare

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men.

— William Shakespeare

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

— William Shakespeare

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

— William Shakespeare

When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

— William Shakespeare

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

— William Shakespeare

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

— William Shakespeare

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

— William Shakespeare

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.

— William Shakespeare

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in…

— William Shakespeare

Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the…

— William Shakespeare

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many…

— William Shakespeare

Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish her election, Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

— William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that…

— William Shakespeare

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill?…

— William Shakespeare

All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason…

— William Shakespeare

Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is…

— William Shakespeare

Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury, You may partake of any thing we say: We speak no treason, man; we say…

— William Shakespeare

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound,…

— William Shakespeare

My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted…

— William Shakespeare

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only,…

— William Shakespeare

A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and,…

— William Shakespeare

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th'…

— William Shakespeare

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing…

— William Shakespeare

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye But hath his bond in earth, in sea, in sky. The beasts, the fishes, and the…

— William Shakespeare

Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a…

— William Shakespeare

Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the…

— William Shakespeare

Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,…

— William Shakespeare

There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did…

— William Shakespeare

If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,…

— William Shakespeare

Milk-livered man, That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs; Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning Thine…

— William Shakespeare

But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of…

— William Shakespeare