William Shakespeare

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing”

“Brevity is the soul of wit”

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once”

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break”

“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”

“Now is the winter of our discontent”

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

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

“The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes”

“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”

“To be, or not to be, that is the question”

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”