Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Life Advice

November 10

Suspicion Distorts

As, I confess, it is my nature’s plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not.

–Othello,
Act III, Scene iii
November 8

Work and Play

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.

–Henry IV Part 1,
Act I, Scene ii
November 6

Don’t Be Too Rigid

Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,
Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.

–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act IV, Scene iii
November 5

Let Them

In the meantime,
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.

— Much Ado About Nothing,
Act I, Scene iii
November 3

Love Grows

At first I did adore a twinkling star,
But now I worship a celestial sun.

–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act II, Scene vi
November 2

Walk Softly

Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee:
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues.

–Henry VIII,
Act III, Scene ii
October 30

Try a Different Table

Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

–The Comedy of Errors,
Act IV, Scene iii