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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by EdmundIn context
- Luck
- Responsibility
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by AlbanyIn context
- Change
Beware the Ides of March.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by BrutusIn context
- Decisions
- Luck
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by PuckIn context
Full fathom five thy father lies.
Of his bones are coral made.
Those are pearls that were his eyes.
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context
- Change
- Life & Death
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene III, spoken by BenedickIn context
- Age
- Change
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 29 (1609)In context
- Emotion
- Luck
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act II, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by EdmundIn context
Thereby hangs a tale.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by GrumioIn context
Some men see things as they are and say why⁠—I dream things that never were and say why not.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950In The World (18 July 1894), Music in London 1890-1894: Being Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World (New York: Vienna House, 1973)
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950