WIST

Fellowship in woe doth woe assuage.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
“The Rape of Lucrece,” l. 790 (1594)

Lovers and madmen have seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, V.I.4

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well that Ends Well, Act 3, sc. 5

Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well That Ends Well, I.I.59

HELENA: Oft expectation fails and most oft there
Where most it promises, and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well that Ends Well, II.i.145 (1602)

The web of our life is a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
All’s Well that Ends Well, IV.iii.74

We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so we find profit by losing of our prayers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, II.I.5

To business that we love we rise betime
And go to it with delight.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Antony and Cleopatra, IV.iv.20

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, I.iii.11

We are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.iv.54-55 (1599)

Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
The wide and universal theater
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.vii.136

We are not all alone unhappy.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.vii.136

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts ….

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, II.vii.139 [Jaques] (1599)

Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, IV.iii.129

I do now remember a saying,
‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a fool.’

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
As You Like It, V.i.31-32 [Touchstone] (1599)

Ingratitude is monstrous.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, II.iii.9

You might have been enough the man you are
With striving less to be so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, III.ii.19-20

You might have been enough the man you are
With striving less to be so.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, III.ii.19-20

Action is eloquence.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, III.ii.76

Society is not comfort
To one not sociable.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, IV.ii.12

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Cymbeline, IV.iii.46

Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet I.iii.78-80 [Polonius] (c.1600)

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet III.i.139 [Hamlet] (1600)

The dread of something after death,
The undiscovr’d country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than to fly to others that we know not of?

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, 3.1.78 [Hamlet] (1600)

HAMLET: If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, 5.2.230 (1600)

Season your admiration for a while.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, I.I.192

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven
While he the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, I.iii.48-52 (1602)

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Hamlet, I.iii.62-63