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

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Witty Quotes

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's...

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's...

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of...

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of...

Take heed, be wary how you place your words;Talk like the vulgar sort of market...

Take heed, be wary how you place your words;Talk like the vulgar sort of market...

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,...

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

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

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on...

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on...

I will beat thee into handsomeness

I will beat thee into handsomeness

Love and reason keep little company together

Love and reason keep little company together

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

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

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

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as...

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as...

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and...

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and...