God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
— William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
Speak low, if you speak love.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
What's done can't be undone.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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.
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
If music be the food of love, play on.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
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.
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
