William Shakespeare Littles Quotations

To do a great right do a little wrong.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

Let's meet as little as we can

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)

for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

A very little little let us do And all is done.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

How long a time lies in one little word?

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.