I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Courtesy Quotes

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids...

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught,...

There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught,...

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the...

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the...

Though this be madness, yet there is method

Though this be madness, yet there is method

They have a plentiful lack of wit

They have a plentiful lack of wit

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.

When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,And ask of thee forgiveness.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off...

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off...

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt

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...

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose

Our foster-nurse of nature is repose

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

How can I lose to such an idiot?

How can I lose to such an idiot?

When at a loss how to go on, in speaking, cough

When at a loss how to go on, in speaking, cough