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Tragedy (play)177 quotes
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man. — William Shakespeare · 1616To be or not to be—that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep—
No more—and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep—
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. — William Shakespeare · 1616My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare · 1597What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable; in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals-And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? — William Shakespeare · 1616Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. — William Shakespeare · 1616One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774All 177 quotes →Greek tragedy28 quotes
For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest. — Aeschylus · 467 BCFor God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues. — Sophocles · 442 BCReason is God's crowning gift to man. — Sophocles · 442 BCHow dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth! — Sophocles · 430 BCThe greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. — Sophocles · 430 BCFor few there are among men in whom it is inborn to admire without envy a friend's good fortune. — Aeschylus · 458 BCAll 28 quotes →Tragedy26 quotes
One lives but once in this world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1774Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. — Friedrich Schiller · 1801A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense. — Pierre Corneille · 1674Who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808What's not forbidden to do make bold. — Friedrich Schiller · 1798Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do
What then thou would'st. — John Milton · 1671All 26 quotes →History (play)16 quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare · 1599There 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. — William Shakespeare · 1599Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare · 1599Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones. — William Shakespeare · 1599Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. — William Shakespeare · 1599If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. — William Shakespeare · 1599All 16 quotes →Comedy3 quotes
There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know! — John Dryden · 1680Dead men tell no tales. — John Dryden · 1680Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and death things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind. — John Webster · 1619Comedy (play)3 quotes
There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know! — John Dryden · 1680Dead men tell no tales. — John Dryden · 1680Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and death things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind. — John Webster · 1619Drama (play)1 quote
Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838