"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father"
"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world"
"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions"
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves"
"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man"
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life"
"Let no such man be trusted"
"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"
"We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone"
"Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes"
"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"
"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"
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"
"I dote on his very absence"
"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"
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go"
"Women may fall when there's no strength in men"
"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"
"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"
"Farewell, fair cruelty"
"For I can raise no money by vile means"
"They say miracles are past"
"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company"
"Such as we are made of, such we be"
"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better"
"In a false quarrel there is no true valor"
"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"