Timon of Athens Quotes

Like madness is the glory of this life.

– William Shakespeare

You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time’s flies.

– William Shakespeare

We have seen better days.

– William Shakespeare

O! the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us.

– William Shakespeare

My long sickness
Of health and living now begins to mend,
And nothing brings me all things.

– William Shakespeare

Never learned
The icy precepts of respect, but followed
The sugared game before thee. But myself,
Who had the world as my confectionary,
The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men
At duty, more than I could frame employment,
That numberless upon me stuck as leaves
Do on the oak, hive with one winter’s brush
Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare
For every storm that blows.

– William Shakespeare

Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;
Who once a day with his embossed froth
The turbulent surge shall cover.

– William Shakespeare

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

– William Shakespeare

‘Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

– William Shakespeare

The strain of man’s bred out
Into baboon and monkey.

– William Shakespeare

He has almost charmed me from my profession, by persuading me to it.

– William Shakespeare

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

– William Shakespeare

I’ll example you with thievery:
The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon’s an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth’s a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing’s a thief.

– William Shakespeare

Life’s uncertain voyage.

– William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

– William Shakespeare