William Shakespeare Quotes on Man (261 Quotes)
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- But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
- I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays As thou dost, Anthony; he heard no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mocked himself and scorned his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
- Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
- To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
(William Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing")
- By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown,
Unless this general evil they maintain:
All men are bad, and in their badness reign.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never
heard a man of his place, gravity, and learning, so wide of
his own respect.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- You or any man living may be drunk at some time, man.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- Thou art the thing itself;
unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked
animal as thou art.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days-
So full of dismal terror was the time!
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
- Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
(William Shakespeare)
- No worse a husband than the best of men.
(William Shakespeare)
- A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful
look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think,
his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and
now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
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