Tempt not a desperate man Auteur: William Shakespeare Copy Quote More from William Shakespeare “Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.” “Diseases desperate grown,By desperate appliance are relieved,Or not at all.” “Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a …” “But no perfection is so absoluteThat some inpurity doth not pollute.”