"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"
"Speak low, if you speak love"
"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil"
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none"
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven"
"I am not bound to please thee with my answer"
"Give thy thoughts no tongue"
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
"This above all; to thine own self be true"
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"
"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"
"I dote on his very absence"
"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing"
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"
"Women may fall when there's no strength in men"
"To do a great right do a little wrong"
"To be, or not to be: that is the question"
"There's place and means for every man alive"
"There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting"
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face"
"There's many a man has more hair than wit"
"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass"
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"
"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
"Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him"
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements"
"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone"
"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes"
"In a false quarrel there is no true valor"
"Its one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall"
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions"
"What is past is prologue"
"They do not love that do not show their love"
"The valiant never taste of death but once"
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired"
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one"
"Farewell, fair cruelty"
"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me"
"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor"
"I like not fair terms and a villain's mind"
"For my part, it was Greek to me"
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know"
"Its best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems"
"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove"
"No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing"
"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing"
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry"
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces"