Shakespeare, William
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness."
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired."
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."
"To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
"To be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with the gods above."
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better."
"Love is merely a madness."
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
"My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his."
"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself."
"Men are as the time is."
"When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools."
"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion."
"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stoln, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all."
"Trifles, light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ."
"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise."
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none."
"This above all: to thine own self be true."
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"Do you now know that I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
"Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard."
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
"Thought is free."
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
"If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee."
"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."
"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done."
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Ay, me. You juggler! You canker blossom!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
"You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Get gone, you dwarf!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream
"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave." - All's Well That Ends Well
"One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten." - All's Well That Ends Well
"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - All's Well That Ends Well
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool." - As You Like It
"I do desire we may be better strangers." - As You Like It
"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." - As You Like It
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - As You Like It
"It is my study to seem despiteful and ungentle to you." - As You Like It
"'Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favour'd children." - As You Like It
"Thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love: For I must tell you friendly in your ear,-- Sell when you can: you are not for all markets." - As You Like It
"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ." - Hamlet
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself." - Hamlet
"For to the noble mind
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - Hamlet
"You sir, are a fishmonger!" - Hamlet
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" - HAMLET - Hamlet II ii
"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." - Hamlet I ii
"This above all: to thine own self be true" - Hamlet I iii
"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire." - Henry IV Part 2
"I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way." - Henry IV Part 2
"What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name." - Henry IV Part 2
"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." - Henry IV Part I
"Your horse would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted." - Henry V
"True nobility is exempt from fear." - Henry VI
"Glory is like a circle in the water,
"Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither." - Henry VI Part 3
"Had I but served my God with half the zeal
"Et tu, Brute!" - Julius Caesar
"When our actions do not,
"If it were done when `tis done, then `twere well
"Present fears
"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - Macbeth
"[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair." - Macbeth
"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there." - Macbeth
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." - Measure for Measure
"When the age is in, the wit is out." - Much Ado About Nothing
"I were but little happy, if I could say how much." - Much Ado About Nothing
"For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." - Much Ado About Nothing
"They that touch pitch will be defiled." - Much Ado About Nothing
"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." - Much Ado About Nothing
"I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed." - Much Ado About Nothing
"In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one." - Much Ado About Nothing
"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed." - Othello
"You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!" - Othello
"If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee, in so fair a troop, To read a lecture of them?" - Richard II
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III
"Thy mother's name is ominous to children." - Richard III
"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." - Romeo and Juliet
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." - Romeo and Juliet
"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit." - Romeo and Juliet
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet II ii
"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight." - Sonnet CII
"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth." - The Comedy of Errors
"As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife." - The Comedy of Errors
"All that glisters is not gold;
"They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing." - The Merchant of Venice
"How far that little candle throws his beams!
"[He] speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search." - The Merchant of Venice
"I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire." - The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
"There's small choice in rotten apples." - The Taming of the Shrew
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." - The Taming of the Shrew
"Though [he] is not naturally honest, [he] is so sometimes by chance." - The Winter's Tale
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
"Were I like thee I'd throw away myself." - Timon of Athens
"But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - Twelfth Night
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
- Hamlet
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
- Hamlet
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought."
- Henry VI Part 1
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
- Henry VIII
Our fears do make us traitors."
- Macbeth
It were done quickly."
- Macbeth
Are less than horrible imaginings."
- Macbeth
Often have you heard that told."
- The Merchant of Venice
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
- The Merchant of Venice
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care."
- The Passionate Pilgrim
But to support him after."
- Timon of Athens
