“When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 126 of 303
“Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?”
“Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.”
“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”
“IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.”
“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”
“Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.”
“The soul of this man is his clothes.”
“True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”
“A kind Of excellent dumb discourse.”
“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
“Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”
“O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.”
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
“The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.”
“Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.”
“It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.”
“Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.”
“I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.”
“My films are misinterpreted all the time. I don't mind that. Everybody's films are misinterpreted. But there's no malice or stupidity in the people that misinterpret them. You know what you do, but someone else sees it, and they want to talk about it or write about it, and so they misinterpret them.”