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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
I am a man,
More sinn'd against than sinning.
King Lear (1605)
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
As You Like It (1599)
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Hamlet (1600)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Henry IV, Part 2 (1597)
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving.
Othello (1603)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.
Macbeth (1605)
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Julius Caesar (1599)
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
Henry IV, Part 1 (1597)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Twelfth Night (1601)
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore to be won.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)
The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet (1600)
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
Richard III (1592)
'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.'
As You Like It (1599)
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.
The Merchant of Venice (1596)
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Much Ado About Nothing (1598)