Mean Quotes by William Shakespeare

Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

— William Shakespeare

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

— William Shakespeare

“It is no mean happiness...to be seated in the mean”

— William Shakespeare

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

— William Shakespeare

Some falls the means are happier to rise.

— William Shakespeare

When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the…

— William Shakespeare

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.

— William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for…

— William Shakespeare

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do…

— William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

— William Shakespeare

Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

— William Shakespeare

Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.

— William Shakespeare

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us,…

— William Shakespeare

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc…

— William Shakespeare

A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming,…

— William Shakespeare

Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the…

— William Shakespeare

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the…

— William Shakespeare

I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die…

— William Shakespeare

The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his…

— William Shakespeare

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we…

— William Shakespeare

Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot…

— William Shakespeare

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean…

— William Shakespeare

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without…

— William Shakespeare

Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?…

— William Shakespeare

Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it…

— William Shakespeare

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

— William Shakespeare

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

— William Shakespeare

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.

— William Shakespeare

Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust.

— William Shakespeare

Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.

— William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

— William Shakespeare

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

— William Shakespeare

Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea…

— William Shakespeare

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their…

— William Shakespeare