32 quotes
From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.
The world's a stage on which all parts are played.
A Game of Chess (1624)
Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?
The Family of Love (1602)
I never heard
Of any true affection but 'twas nipped.
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
The Family of Love (1602)
Like pearl
Dropt from the opening eyelids of the morn
Upon the bashful rose.
A Game of Chess (1624)
Let the air strike our tune,
Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.
The Witch (1616)
Justice may wink a while, but see at last.
Wilt make haste to give up thy verdict because thou wilt not lose thy dinner.
A Trick to catch the Old One (1605)
How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!
’Tis slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.
Michaelmas Term (1602)
Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.
A little too wise they say do ne'er live long.
How a good meaning
May be corrupted by a misconstruction.
Black spirits and white, red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle, you that mingle may.
The Witch (1616)
From thousands of our undone widows
One may derive some wit.
A Trick to catch the Old One (1605)
Hold their noses to the grindstone.
All is not gold that glisteneth.
A Fair Quarrel (1616)
In the election of a wife, as in
A project of war, to err but once is
To be undone forever.