William Shakespeare Quotes

Diseases desperate grown. By desperate appliance are relieved, Or not at all. (Hamlet)

Discretion is the better part of valor. (Henry IV)

Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. (All’s Well That Ends Well)

He must needs go whom the devil drives. (All’s Well That Ends Well)

The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. (Hamlet)

The prince of darkness is a gentleman. (King Lear)

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (The Tempest)

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! (The Merchant of Venice)

He that stands upon a slippery place, makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. (King John)