William Shakespeare Quotes About Affairs

• 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 our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

• There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

• There is a tide in the affairs of men

  William Shakespeare

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

• Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friendship, Valentines Day

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [184]

• Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Heart, Blood

  1598 Claudio. Much Ado About Nothing, act 2, sc.1, l.169-70.

• What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Liberty, Affair

• But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,
  Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, May, Affair

  1599 Cassius to Brutus. Julius Caesar, act 5, sc.1, l.95-6.

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