" I have not slept one wink. "

William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline”, Act 3 scene 4 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" In time we hate that which we often fear. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. "

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Come not within the measure of my wrath. "

William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Act 5 scene 4 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds. "

William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Life is 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 tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.” "

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth) Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. "

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 2 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. "

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is. "

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 1 scene 5 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Brevity is the soul of wit. "

William Shakespeare, Hamlet Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent. "

William Shakespeare, “Much Ado about Nothing”, Act 2 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" My library
Was dukedom large enough. "

William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, Act 1 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. "

William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, Act 3 scene 1 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" My salad days,
When I was green in judgment. "

William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra”, Act 1 scene 5 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. "

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 2 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" The rest is silence. "

William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, Act 5 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones. "

William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar”, Act 3 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. "

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" I am not bound to please thee with my answers. "

William Shakespeare Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

" If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. "

William Shakespeare, “King Henry IV Part I”, Act 1 scene 2 Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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