True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone. (Henry VI)
William Shakespeare Quotes
O for a horse with wings! (Cymbeline)
The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. (Measure for Measure)
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow’s wings. (Richard III)
Things out of hope are compassed oft with venturing. (Venus and Adonis)
Set honor in one eye and death i’ the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death. (Julius Caesar)
Knighthoods and honors, borne As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn. If that thy gentry, Britain, go before This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds Is that we scarce are men and you are gods. (Cymbeline)
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. (The Taming of the Shrew)
I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. (Henry V)
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life. (Troilus and Cressida)
