Quote by William Shakespeare

I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down…

— William Shakespeare

“Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't.— No more of that.—I pray…

— William Shakespeare

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity,…

— Anthony Trollope

“Friendship is peace... I shall not speak ill of you or try to ruin you; you will not speak ill of me or try…

— Sri Chinmoy

“Then must you speak    Of one that lov’d not wisely, but too well;    Of”

— Williiam Shakespeare

“But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt…

— Mohsin Hamid

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“...pleasure at hearing what all of us wanted to hear at least occasionally: that there was somebody who liked us, whatever our faults, and…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Of course I am not referring to those outburts of passions that drive us to do and say things we will later regret, that…

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

“What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay Him thanks? How due! Yet all His good proved ill…

— John Milton

“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson