"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment." - William Shakespeare

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare

"In a false quarrel there is no true valour." - William Shakespeare

"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." - William Shakespeare

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness." - William Shakespeare

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired." - William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare

"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause." - William Shakespeare

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare

"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear." - William Shakespeare

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly." - William Shakespeare

"To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." - William Shakespeare

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms." - William Shakespeare

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare

"To be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with the gods above." - William Shakespeare

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." - William Shakespeare

"Love is merely a madness." - William Shakespeare

"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything." - William Shakespeare

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils." - William Shakespeare

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing." - William Shakespeare

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones." - William Shakespeare

"My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his." - William Shakespeare

"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself." - William Shakespeare

"Men are as the time is." - William Shakespeare

"When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools." - William Shakespeare

"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion." - William Shakespeare

"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stoln, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all." - William Shakespeare

"Trifles, light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." - William Shakespeare

"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise." - William Shakespeare

"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"This above all: to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"Brevity is the soul of wit." - William Shakespeare

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - William Shakespeare

"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare

"Do you now know that I am a woman? when I think, I must speak." - William Shakespeare

"Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard." - William Shakespeare

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions." - William Shakespeare

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue." - William Shakespeare

"Thought is free." - William Shakespeare

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

"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." - William Shakespeare

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law." - William Shakespeare

"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done." - William Shakespeare

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Ay, me. You juggler! You canker blossom!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Get gone, you dwarf!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave." - William Shakespeare, 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." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"It is my study to seem despiteful and ungentle to you." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"'Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favour'd children." - William Shakespeare, 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." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"For to the noble mind
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"You sir, are a fishmonger!" - William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2

"I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2

"What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2

"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I

"Your horse would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted." - William Shakespeare, Henry V

"True nobility is exempt from fear." - William Shakespeare, Henry VI

"Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself
Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought."
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1

"Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither." - William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 3

"Had I but served my God with half the zeal
I served my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies."
- William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

"Et tu, Brute!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings."
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"When the age is in, the wit is out." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"They that touch pitch will be defiled." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed." - William Shakespeare, 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." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed." - William Shakespeare, Othello

"You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!" - William Shakespeare, Othello

"If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee, in so fair a troop, To read a lecture of them?" - William Shakespeare, Richard II

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" - William Shakespeare, Richard III

"Thy mother's name is ominous to children." - William Shakespeare, Richard III

"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight." - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CII

"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth." - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife." - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told."
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"[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." - William Shakespeare, 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." - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care."
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

"There's small choice in rotten apples." - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

"Though [he] is not naturally honest, [he] is so sometimes by chance." - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

"Were I like thee I'd throw away myself." - William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

"But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night