William Shakespeare

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Boldness be my friend."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"Death is a fearful thing."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love."

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"For I can raise no money by vile means."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"I bear a charmed life."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"I was adored once too."

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love."

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"My pride fell with my fortunes."

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

"Speak low, if you speak love."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."