Welcome to the Quotable Success Collections!

Quotable Success, like BeMoreCreative.com, encourages thinking, working, and living more creatively. Creativity is "the power to connect the seemingly unconnected" (W. Plommer). To support this work, we earn a small affiliate commission. Please browse creatively!


George Bernard Shaw: First love is...

George Bernard Shaw: First love is...

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage...

More about this quote...

George Bernard Shaw: I have to...

George Bernard Shaw: I have to...

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Source:...

More about this quote...

George Bernard Shaw: Kings are not...

George Bernard Shaw: Kings are not...

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Source: Man and...

More about this quote...

George Bernard Shaw: I'm an atheist...

George Bernard Shaw: I'm an atheist...

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

More about this quote...

George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

Love is a gross exaggeration of the differences between one person and everybody else.

More about this quote...

George Bernard Shaw: I've been offered...

George Bernard Shaw: I've been offered...

I've been offered titles, but I think they get one into disreputable company.

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Let every eye...

William Shakespeare: Let every eye...

Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.


Source: Claudio, in Much...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: He hath a...

William Shakespeare: He hath a...

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Thou hast done...

William Shakespeare: Thou hast done...

Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.

Source: Coriolanus, V. v....

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: If we shadows...

William Shakespeare: If we shadows...

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Tis my vocation,...

William Shakespeare: Tis my vocation,...

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.

Source:...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that hath...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: I see you...

William Shakespeare: I see you...

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit;...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Though patience be...

William Shakespeare: Though patience be...

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Source: Henry V, II. i....

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: A jest's prosperity...

William Shakespeare: A jest's prosperity...

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: I will be...

William Shakespeare: I will be...

I will be the pattern of all patience.

Source: King Lear, III. ii. (37).
--...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Ay, now am...

William Shakespeare: Ay, now am...

Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was in a better place: but travellers must be...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Can such things...

William Shakespeare: Can such things...

Can such things be
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

William Shakespeare: I am not...

I am not merry, but I do beguile The thing I am by seeming otherwise.

Source:...

More about this quote...

William Shakespeare: Conscience is but...

William Shakespeare: Conscience is but...

Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe.


More about this quote...

Page 1,489 of 2,002


(C)2025 Quotable Success - All Rights Reserved.

Quotable Success
Harrisonburg, VA