WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"The instruments of darkness tell us truths."

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change."

"And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."

"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"

"...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?"

"A light heart lives long."

"I would not wish any companion in the world but you."

"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

"If your mind dislike anything obey it."

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

"In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge."

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."

"Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.""

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages."

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."

"Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."

"Don't trust the person who has broken faith once."

"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

"Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall."

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

"God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."

"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."

"Grief makes one hour ten."

"Have more than you show, Speak less than you know."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself."

"I do desire we may be better strangers."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."