William Shakespeare Memorable Quotations [Page 2]

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

Courage mounteth with occasion.

I would fain die a dry death.

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

Beware the ides of March.

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!