“There is nothing either good or bad, But thinking makes it so.”
Hamlet, II:2
“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.”
Much Ado About Nothing, V:1
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Hamlet, III:3
“How poor are they that have not patience.”
Othello, II:3
“The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation.”
Richard II, I:1
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
Two Gentlemen of Verona, I:2
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
The Merchant of Venice, I:3
“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.”
King Lear, III:6
“O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.”
As You Like It, V:4
“Oh! You gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch them straight away?”
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, III:1
“The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there, an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.”
Macbeth, III:4
“O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.”
Measure for Measure, II:2
“A friendly eye could never see such faults.”
Julius Caesar, IV:3
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Twelfth Night, I:1
“Have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?”
Macbeth, I:3
“Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.”
The Merry Wives of Windsor, III:2
“Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; not light them for themselves.”
Measure for Measure, I:1
“He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed.”
Othello, III:3
“Lay her i’ the earth, and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring!”
Hamlet, V:1
“‘Tis better to be brief than tedious.”
Richard III, I:4