William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Let no such man be trusted.

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Boldness be my friend.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers.

Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.