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- Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act II, sc. 3
- Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, the death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2
- O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her and be her sense but as a monument, thus in a chapel lying.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act II, sc. 2
- A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act V, sc. 1
- Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, and look on death itself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 3
- Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"- the innocent sleep.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act II, sc. 2
- O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, and steep my senses in forgetfulness.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
- Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, sc. 2
- Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. 3
- He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act V, sc. 4
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