William Shakespeare Littles Quotations

To do a great right do a little wrong.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

A very little little let us do And all is done.

I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.

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

In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.

And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

How long a time lies in one little word?

I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

A little more than kin, a little less than kind.

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.

Let's meet as little as we can

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)