“And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.”
“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
“If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.”
“Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.”
“Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.”
“Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Life, It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
“She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.”
“Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.”
“Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?”
“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”
“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.”
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit”
“When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]”
“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.”
“A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”
“How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.”
“Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.”
“Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.”
“O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.”
“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”
“There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.”
“Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.”
“Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”
“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.”
“It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.”
“I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.”