1. To be or not to be, that is a question.
2. The course of true love never did run smooth.
3. Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to from and dignity;
love looks not with the eyes, but with mind.
4. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
5. The lunatic, the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.
6. Since the little wit that fools have was silenc'd,
the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
7. Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
8. Sweet are the uses of adversity.
9. Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.
10. Love is merely a madness.
11. O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
12. It is a wise father that knows his own child.
13. Love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.
14. All that glisters is not gold.
15. So is the will of a living daughter curb'd by the will of a dead father.
16. The quality of mercy is not strained.
17. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
18. O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
19. I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death but no word to save thee.
20. O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
21. Beauty, wit, high birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity,
are subjects all to envious and calumniating time.
22. You gods divine! Make Cressida's name the very crown of falsehood, if ever she leave Troilus.
23. Beauty! Where is thy faith?
24. Take but degree away, untune that string, and, hark, what discord follows!
25. O, she dothe teach the torches to burn bright!
26. My only love sprung from my only hate!
27. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.
28. Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
29. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
30. A little more than kin, and less than kind.
31. Frailty, thy name is woman!
32. This above all: to thine self be true.
33. The time is out of joint – O, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
34. Brevity is the soul of wit.
35. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
36. There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
37. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
38. The rest is silence.
39. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
40. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.
41. Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; tis something, nothing.
42. O, curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites!
43. We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.
44. Nothing will come of nothing.
45. Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stands aloof from th'entire point.
46. How sharper than a serpent's tooth is to have a thankless child.
47. Blow, winds, and crack cheeks! Rage! Blow!
48. Tis this times plague, when madmen lead the blind.
49. Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?
50. Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
51. I fear thy nature; it is too full o'the milk of human kindness.
52. What's done cannot be undone.
53. Out, out, brief candle, life is but a walking shadow.
54. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
55. Men's judgments are a parcel of their fortunes; and things outward do
draw the inward quality after them, to suffer all alike.
56. Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
57. A light heart lives long.
58. Do not, for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
59. In delay there lies no plenty, Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff that will not endure.
60. The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
61. Don't gild the lily.
62. The empty vessels make the greatest sound.
63. The course of true love never did run smooth.