Use every man after his desert, and who should ‘scape whipping? (Hamlet)
William Shakespeare Quotes
Like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
Delays have dangerous ends. (Henry VI)
In cases of defense ’tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. So the proportions of defense are filled; Which of a weak and niggardly projection Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting A little cloth. (Henry V)
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. (Henry VI)
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. (The Comedy of Errors)
The attempt and not the deed confounds us. (Macbeth)
If to do were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages prince’s palaces. (The Merchant of Venice)
One good deed, dying tongueless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. (The Winter’s Tale)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never. (Much Ado About Nothing)
