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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

William Shakespeare – select quotes

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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betrays In deepest consequence.

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Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ in Cymbeline

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Unkindness strikes a deeper wound than steel.

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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!

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The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.

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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
~ in Othello, Act II, scene iii

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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
~ in Othello, Act III, scene iii

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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
~ in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation.

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Once more into the breach, dear friends,
Once more; …
~ in King Henry V

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No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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How my achievements mock me!
~ Troilus, in William Shakespeare’s play Troilus and Cressida, Act 4, Scene II

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Honesty – select quotes

One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
~ Baltasar Gracian, in The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
~ Samuel Butler

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fastly misled us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no timepieces so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
~ Charles Caleb Colton

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
~ Noel Coward

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
~ Charles Dickens

The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.
~ Samuel Johnson

White lies are but the ushers to black ones.
~ Frederick Marryat

An honest man is the noblest work of God.
~ Alexander Pope

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch. Nay, you may kick it about all day, and it will be round and full at evening.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~ Winston Churchill

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
~ Walter Scott

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
~ William Shakespeare

Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
~ William Shakespeare

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
~ Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
~ Mark Twain

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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Loneliness – select quotes

LonlinessLoneliness is the most devastating malody of this age.
~ Paul Tournier

Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon to a few solitary men like myself, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~ Thomas Wolfe

Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul without God in the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at television. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
~ Carl Sandburg

They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.
~ Sir Philip Sidney

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
~ Mother Teresa

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one…
~ Three Dog Night

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~ Mark Twain

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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Juvenal – select quotes

Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [But who is to guard the guards themselves.]
~ in Satires, IV, 1, 347

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Fathers and Sons – select quotes

A man is not a man until his father says that he is.
~ Robert Lewis

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
~ General Douglas MacArthur

No man will ever rise above the opinion his children have of him.
~ Dennis Rainey

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.
~ Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

My father taught me how to be a man — and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.
~ Kevin Smith

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February 17, 2013 by kevinstilley

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