"My man's as true as steel."

"But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

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

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The rest, is silence."

"Middle Tennessee? Really? My bracket is more busted than Screech's face during puberty."

"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too."

"Assume a virtue if you have it not."

"It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance."

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?"

"I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move."

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"What's done can't be undone."

"I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humour of your idleness . . ."

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."

"I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!"

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child."

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

"I dote on his very absence."

"Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."

"What is the city but the people?"

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

"Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more no less."

"If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."

"I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

"JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?ORLANDO: Yes, just.JAQUES: I do not like her name.ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

"Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Full fathom five thy father lies;Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes:Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-dong, bell."

"O brave new world,That has such people in 't!-Miranda."

"Of all matches never was the like."

"Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content."

"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?"

"Oh, devil, devil! If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. Out of my sight!"

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."

"Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."

"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."

"He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."

"Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest."

"Time is the king of men."

"Brutus: Kneel not, gentle Portia.Portia: I should need not, if you were gentle Brutus. Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, Is it excepted I should know no secrets That appertain to you? Am I yourself But, as it were, in sort or limitation, To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed, And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."

"Adversity's sweet milk philosophy."