Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
— William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
I will praise any man that will praise me.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
I was adored once too.
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
I dote on his very absence.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
They say miracles are past.
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
What is past is prologue.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
The wheel is come full circle.
I bear a charmed life.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
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!
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
