Humanity Quotes

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.”

“It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.”

“What's the news?None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest,Then is doomsday near.”

“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!”

“But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.”

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.”

“Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.”

“Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.”

“But now behold,In the quick forge and working-house of thought,How London doth pour out her citizens!”

“The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.”

“Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”

“Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.”

“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”

“There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.”

“Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.”

“Blessed are the peacemakers on earth.”