A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
“Sweets to the sweet.”
“To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To...”
“O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else?And shall I couple Hell?”
“I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each parti...”
“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”
“So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree. It was very strange. Whenever a man arose and wanted to go forward all those ...”
“We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”
“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”