William Shakespeare Quotes

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

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• 'This is my story, this is my song If you feel it, muthafucka, you can't go wrong to the screw-face niggaz, whatch you on? Get off that, get a goal and focus dawg'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Song
  • Focus

• I swear to God, my career is like this weird origami thing.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • God
  • Career
  • Weird

• Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Write
  • Talk
  • E-mail

• There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Ideas

• Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Man
  • Offenses

• God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Grace
  • Gods
  • Forgiving

• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Word
  • Higher
  • Wander

• The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • Religion
  • Ornaments

• Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.

  

  Earl Paulk
  • Men
  • Generation
  • Generations

• There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leave
  • Sect
  • Gandhism

• Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Possess
  • Riches
  • Hurtful

• I think that if you can convey a kind of a complexity, a mystery, a truth in stillness, that, to me, is really worth striving for, and I totally agree with Michael Fassbender in that less is more. If it's going on inside you, the camera will find it.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Mystery

• Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Difficult
  • Silent
  • Parties

• I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Really
  • Opportunities
  • Keep

• To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Stupid

• When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Vain
  • Scarce