William Shakespeare

“My particular grief Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, And it is still itself.”

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

“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.”

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.”

“'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.”

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”

“What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?”

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

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

“There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.”

“What's done cannot be undone.”

“Let no such man be trusted.”

“Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.”

“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”

“love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”

“All the world's a stage.”

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger.”

“When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.”

“DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.DON PEDROYou have put him down, lady, you have put him down.BEATRICESo I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.”