William Shakespeare Mind Quotations

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste: Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.

I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good.

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether (He's an oddity in that he enjoys having fun)

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.

When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.

Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind And makes it fearful and degenerate.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.

And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

Hate pollutes the mind.

This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he can't flatter, he! An honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth! And they will take it so; if not he's plain. These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, Than twenty silly, ducking observants, That stretch their duty nicely.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Would the cook were o' my mind!

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

O, full of scorpions is my mind!

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred;And I myself see not the bottom of it.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

To be or not to be that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them.

If your mind dislike anything obey it

All things are ready, if our mind be so.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I'll always be in your heart…If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.

I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Dreams are the children of idled minds.

There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand.

Love sees with the heart and not with mind.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.