Quotations From WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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• 191.

  There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Fool, in King Lear, act 3, sc. 2, l. 35-6.
  
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• 192.

  You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, sc. 1, l. 298-9. To Benedick, who hesitates at the idea of killing his friend Claudio.
• 193.

  The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff Henry IV, Part 2, act 2, sc. 4, l. 376-7.
  
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• 194.

  Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Gloucester, in King Lear, act 1, sc. 2, l. 106-9.
  
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• 195.

  When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 2, l. 88-9. Describing her German suitor, who is often drunk.
• 196.

  Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Brutus, in Julius Caesar, act 3, sc. 2, l. 22-4. Addressing the people after the death of Caesar.
• 197.

  Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Sir Toby Belch, in Twelfth Night, act 2, sc. 3, l. 110-11 (1623). Speaking to Malvolio. "Cakes and Ale" was used by W. Somerset Maugham as the title of a novel in 1930.
• 198.

  If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue of your office, to be no true man.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Dogberry, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc. 3, l. 50-1. Comically laying down the law.
• 199.

  One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc. 3, l. 26-30. Rejecting the idea of loving a woman.
  
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• 200.

  She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings—the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Feste, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 1, l. 33-5. Referring to Olivia; "pilchards," small fish, are common off European coasts.
  
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