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Act Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
- But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.
- Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
- What e'er thou art, act well thy part.
- Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.
- For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom.
- Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
- Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.
- Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the…
- All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his…
- Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,…
- Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,…
- There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
- A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as…
- I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)
- The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
- I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,…
- O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to…
- A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face…
- Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st…
More Act Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold