“Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
“How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.”
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
“Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.”
“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”
“When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.”
“A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.”
“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”
“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.”
“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”
“O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
“'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.”
“O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!”
“For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
“O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”
“The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.”
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
“When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.”
“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. [Julius Caesar]”
“The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]”
“We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.”
“Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]”
“I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]”
“A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.”
“Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.”
“A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.”