"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

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

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."

"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."

"Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."

"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

"Speak low, if you speak love."

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

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

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

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

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

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

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

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

"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

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

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."

"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

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

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."