1600s · Skopia

Showing 98 quotes from the 1600s

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 8.6

Play · Comedy (play)

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing · 1600

★ 7.8

But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 7.2

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

Ancient times were the youth of the world.

1605

★ 7.0

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.5

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.5

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 6.4

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 6.4

Play · Tragedy (play)

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

Othello · 1604

★ 6.2

Play · Comedy (play)

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing · 1600

★ 5.7

Play · Tragedy (play)

My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra · 1607

★ 5.7

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

But be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

If music be the food of love, play on. Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night · 1602

★ 5.5

That's the nature of women... Not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote · 1605

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play) · Romantic comedy (play)

How apt the poor are to be proud!

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will · 1602

★ 5.5

Play · Comedy (play)

Time’s the king of men. He’s both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

Pericles, Prince of Tyre · 1608

★ 5.5

Legal opinion · Legal writing

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose

Semayne's Case · 1603

★ 5.2

I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.

Johannes Kepler

1605

★ 5.2

I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 5.2

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