Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Witty Quotes

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue...

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue...

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take...

What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take...

Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.

Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that...

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that...

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

To be, or not to be: that is the question.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death is a fearful thing.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined,...

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined,...