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Opinion: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their owne, I may be straight, though they themselves be bevell, By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be showne: Unless this general evil they maintaine, All men are bad, and in their badness raigne. Poems Because you want the grace that others have, You judge it straight a thing impossible To compass wonders, but by help of devils.— H. VI. PT. I. v. 4

There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.— H. ii. 2

Our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time.— C. iv 7

S Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.— 0. i 3

Shakesprarian Dictionary. But fish not with this melancholy bait,— M. V. i. 1.

For this fool's gudgeon, this opinion. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit for the inward man.— P. P. ii. 2.

A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides,— T. C. iii 3

like a leather jerkin. OPPORTUNITY (See also DELAY, IRRESOLUTION, NEGLECT).. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; * Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose out ventures.— J. C. iv. 3

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.— A. C. ii. 7.

When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies, when he hides his beams.— C. E. ii. 2.

A little fire is quickly trodden out; Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.— H. VI. PT. III. iv. 8.

The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, And not neglected; else, if heaven would, And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse.— R. II. iii. 2.

I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes— T. i. 2

Will ever after droop.