“My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.”
“I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.”
“He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.”
“I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.”
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.”
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
“Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.”
“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes deeds ill done!”
“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.”
“Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.”
“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”
“Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]”
“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.”
“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”
“I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.”
“A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.”
“Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues we write in water.”
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]”
“The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]”
“To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.”
“Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.”
“But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.”
“God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]”
“For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.”
“It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.”
“A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.”
“As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
“For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard.”
“I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.”