The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Quote by Shakespeare

Topics: Confusion Quotes

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him,...

So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him,...

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the...

The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the...

The more I give to thee, the more I have.

The more I give to thee, the more I have.

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.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest...

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest...

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his...

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud For grief is proud an't makes his...

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or...

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or...

The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven...

The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven...

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

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

There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides...

There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides...

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...

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by...

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by...

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Done to death by slanderous tongues.

Service is no heritage.

Service is no heritage.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way...

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way...