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

"Past and to come seems best things present worst."

"The single and peculiar mind is boundWith all the strength and armor of the mindTo keep itself from noyance, but much moreThat spirit upon whose weal depends and restsThe lives of many. The cess of majestyDies not alone, but like a gulf doth drawWhat's near it with it; or it is a massy wheelFixed on the summit of the highest mount,To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser thingsAre mortised and adjoined, which, when it falls,Each small annexment, petty consequence,Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never aloneDid the king sigh, but with a general groan."

"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."

"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."

"What a fool honesty is."

"That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet."

"These blessed candles of the night."

"One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die."

"The world's mine oyster Which I with sword will open."

"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

"Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?"

"The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love."

"There's small choice in rotten apples."

"POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?POLONIUS By th'mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.HAMLET Or like a whale?POLONIUS Very like a whale.HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. - They fool me to the top of my bent. - I will come by and by."

"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace."

"In thy foul throat thou liest."

"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"Give me my Romeo and when he shall die. Take him and cut him out in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."

"Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman."

"Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtue we write in water."

"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."

"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself."

"And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty."

"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell."

"Let them obey that know not how to rule."

"A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.She's a stubborn little brat."

"There's meaning in thy snores."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"When the devout religion of mine eyeMaintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires,And these, who, often drowned, could never die,Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sunNe'er saw her match since first the world begun."

"I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him."

"O mother, mother!What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,The gods look down, and this unnatural sceneThey laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!You have won a happy victory to Rome;But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,If not most mortal to him."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

"Give me my Romeo. And when I shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun."

"Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,Nothing goes right; we would and we would not."

"Clown: Good Madonna, why mournest thou?Olivia: Good Fool, for my brother's death.Clown:I think his soul is in hell, Madonna.Olivia:I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.Clown: The more fool, Madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in heaven."

"And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

"For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away."

"When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content."

"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."

"Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb no hollowness."