How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

O fortune, fortune! All men call thee fickle.

Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:<br /> Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote<br /> The unreasonable fury of a beast:<br /> Unseemly woman...

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...

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

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

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,<br /> And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;<br /> But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain<br...

Swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with...

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

O, she is rich in beauty, only poor that, when she dies, with beauty dies her store.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Now is the winter of our discontent<br /> Made glorious summer by this son of York,<br /> And all the clouds that loured upon our house<br /> In the deep...