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

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Witty Quotes

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows

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!

He is the half part of a blessed man, left to be finished by such...

He is the half part of a blessed man, left to be finished by such...

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the...

Death is a fearful thing.

Death is a fearful thing.

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.

Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.

Nothing comes amiss; so money comes withal.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Speak low, if you speak love.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel...

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel...

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,'...

What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about 'right' and 'wrong,'...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority,...

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority,...