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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
Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop’d and window’d raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta’en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them
And show the heavens more just.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
- Charity
- Justice
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act II, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context
- Honor
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash. ’Tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands.
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act III, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context
- Honor
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act I, Scene II, spoken by CaesarIn context
- Character
- Thinking
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CaesarIn context
- Character
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix’d in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, “This was a man!”
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act V, Scene V, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Character
As you from crimes would pardon’d be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), EpilogueIn context
- Forgiveness
- Freedom
It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Advice
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest,
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Forgiveness
- Justice
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Good & Evil
Anything that’s mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene V, spoken by ClownIn context
- Good & Evil
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene VII, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Character
- Nature
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act V, Scene III, spoken by King RichardIn context
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by King HenryIn context
- Courage
- War & Peace