William Shakespeare: Man

William Shakespeare was English playwright and poet. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Touchstone, Act V, scene i
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)

“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.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Polonius, Act I, scene iii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“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 Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“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,
His acts being seven ages.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Jaques, Act II, scene vii.
Variant: 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.
Source: As You Like It (1599–1600)

“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice

“Me, poor man, my library
Was dukedom large enough.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“For to be wise and love exceeds man's might.”

William Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Trinculo, Act II, scene ii.
Source: The Tempest (1611)

“I am a man,
More sinn'd against than sinning.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Lear, Act III, scene ii.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Source: The Merchant of Venice