Perception Quotes

“Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.”

“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.”

“Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.”

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

“woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see”

“Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,My presence, like a robe pontifical,Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.”

“There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.”

“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear”

“He makes a July's day short as December.”

“This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.”

“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”

“Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.”

“Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England." "Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?" "Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there." "Why?" "'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he.”

“Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.”

“Fools are not mad folks.”

“But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”

“She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,Were man as rare as Phoenix.”