Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Category: Life Advice

  • October 13

    Choose

    What a mere child is Fancy,
    That, having two fair gauds of equal sweetness,
    Cannot distinguish, but must cry for both.

    –Two Noble Kinsmen,
    Act IV, Scene ii

  • October 9

    Time Work

    How many things by season season’d are
    To their right praise and true perfection!

    -The Merchant of Venice,
    Act V, Scene i

  • October 4

    Caution Flag

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

    —Macbeth,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • October 1

    Balance Your Power

    O, it is excellent
    To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous
    To use it like a giant.

    — Measure for Measure,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 26

    Changing Tastes

    …but doth not the appetite alter?
    A man loves the meat in his youth
    that he cannot endure in his age.

    —Much Ado About Nothing,
    Act II, Scene iii

  • September 24

    Get Through

    Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
    Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
    Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
    I’ll say as they say, and persever so,
    And in this mist at all adventures go.

    —Comedy of Errors,
    Act II, Scene ii

  • September 22

    Talk Less

    Where words are scarce,
    they are seldom spent in vain.

    ^Richard II,
    Act II, Scene i