William Shakespeare

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question.”

“Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;She is a woman, therefore to be won.”

“The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb.”

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”

“What cannot be eschewed must be embraced”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator.”

“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell,When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

“On a day — alack the day! —Love, whose month is ever May,Spied a blossom passing fairPlaying in the wanton air”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”

“I gyve unto my wief my second best bed with the furniture”

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeareTo digg the dust encloased heareBlese be the man that spares these stonesAnd curst be he that moves my bones”

“I was in love with my bed.”

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”

“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”

“O God! methinks, it were a happy life,To be no better than a homely swain;To sit upon a hill, as I do now,To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,Thereby to see the minutes how they run:How many make the hour full complete,How many hours bring about the day,How many days will finish up the year,How many years a mortal man may live.”

“Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.”

“Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York.”

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

“What light through yonder window breaks?”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade<br />The eyes of men without an orator.”

“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,<br>To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”

“That deep torture may be called a hell,<br>When more is felt than one hath power to tell.”

“On a day — alack the day! —<br>Love, whose month is ever May,<br>Spied a blossom passing fair<br>Playing in the wanton air”

“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:<br>Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare<br>To digg the dust encloased heare<br>Blese be the man that spares these stones<br>And curst be he that moves my bones”