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Ethics
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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
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Evangelism
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and recks not his own rede.
-William Shakespeare
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Evil
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
-William Shakespeare
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There's small choice in rotten apples.
-William Shakespeare
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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Merchant Of Venice
-William Shakespeare
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The devil has the power to assume a pleasing shape.
-William Shakespeare
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But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.
-William Shakespeare, King Richard III
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Excellence
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
-William Shakespeare
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
-William Shakespeare
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Excess
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We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
-William Shakespeare
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Excuses
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
-William Shakespeare
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Expectation
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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, All's Well That Ends Well (II, i, 145-147)
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Face, Faces
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The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
-William Shakespeare
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Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.
-William Shakespeare
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God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. Hamlet
-William Shakespeare
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Fame
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Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.
-William Shakespeare
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
-William Shakespeare
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
-William Shakespeare
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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
-William Shakespeare
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Family
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
-William Shakespeare
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Fashion
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
-William Shakespeare
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
-William Shakespeare
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The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
-William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, 1598
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Fate & Destiny
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
This is probably the source for: It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Cassius to Brutus in act I, scene II
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
-William Shakespeare
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Books by and about William Shakespeare