“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
Source: King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369
“Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.”
Source: King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369
William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Silvia, Act IV, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)
Feeble, Act III, scene ii.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
Macbeth, Act II, scene i.
Macbeth (1606)
William Shakespeare book Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, II. Not to be confused with The Sonnets; this poem is not a sonnet
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Not by Shakespeare, but from Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations, a 1993 self-help book by David S. Viscott.
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/16/purpose-gift/
“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Richard of Gloucester, Act V, scene vi.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)
“Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.”
Guiderius, Act IV, scene ii.
Cymbeline (1610)
William Shakespeare Timon of Athens
Flavius, Act IV, scene ii.
Timon of Athens (1605)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”
William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3
Suffolk, Act III, scene i.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)
This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to Julius Caesar, as well as to Shakespeare's play on his assassination and its aftermath, but there are no records of it prior to late 2000. It has been debunked at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm <br class="br">Misattributed
Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), ch. XII : Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Misattributed
Source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_1) Criminal Minds] ("L.D.S.K." - season 1, episode 6).