Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Perfection Quotes

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

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

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it...

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it...

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep...

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table.

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

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

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

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept

A very honest woman but something given to lie

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Nothing can come of nothing.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor,...

I am not covetous for gold; but if it be a sin to covet honor,...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed...

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the...

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the...