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- What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2
- Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
- But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
- Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 3
- A little more than kin, and less than kind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
- Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 5 scene 8
- Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 5
- There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
- For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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