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...

Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice: Then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well.

It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.

Rockers are made not born

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

Weighest thy words before thou givest them breath.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.