William Shakespeare Should Quotations

A man should be what he seems.

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Good things should be praised.

Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

To you your father should be as a god.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello

If you be King, why should not I succeed?

Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)