William Shakespeare

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?”

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”

“Death is a fearful thing.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Boldness be my friend.”

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”

“Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.”

“Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.”

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.”