As an avid Shakespeare fan, I had to include some of his quotes which I absolutely adore. Enjoy!
The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
-Touchstone the Clown, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2
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,
His acts being seven ages.
-Jaques, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7, lines 139-143
Jaques: I pray you mar no more trees with writing love songs in their barks.
Orlando: I pray you mar no moe of my verses with reading them ill-favoredly.
Jaques: Roaslind is your love's name?
Orlando: Yes, just.
Jaques: I do not like her name.
Orlando: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.
-Jaques and Orlando, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 257-265
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar.
-Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2, lines 82-86
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this and all is mended:
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend.
If you pardon, we will mend.
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long.
Else the Puck a liar call.
So good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
-Robin, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 440-455
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are making the beast with two backs.
-Iago, Othello, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 112-113
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
-Iago, Othello, Act 3, Scene 3, lines 165-168
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
-Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2, lines 46-47
More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!
-Romeo, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 5, line ???
A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
-Prince, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 316-321
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
-Orsino, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1-3
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh [lively] art thou
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea [receives without limit], naught enters there,
Of what validity [value] and pitch [height, excellence] so e'er,
But falls into abatement [lesser value] and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical [uniquely imaginative].
-Orsino, Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 1, lines 9-15
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still [always] we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.
-Viola {as Cesario}, Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5, lines 116-118
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,
A natural perspective [an optical illusion produced by nature], that is and is not.
-Orsino, Twelfth Night, Act 5, Scene 1, lines 213-214
So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
But nature to her bias drew in that [but nature followed her inclanation].
You would have been contracted [betrothed] to a maid,
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived.
You are betrothed both to a maid and man [i.e., a man who is a virgin].
-Sebastian, Twelfth Night, Act 5, Scene 1, lines 257-261
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
-Shakespeare, Sonnet 129, lines 13-14