William Shakespeare Quotes

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

William Shakespeare

• Vain
• Scarce

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• '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

• Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Importance

• Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

  

  William Cowper
  • Blind
  • Vain
  • Interpreter

• And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Darkness
  • Chamber
  • Scarce

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Vain
  • Scarce