Famous quotes containing the word oft:
“Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It oft falls out,
To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)