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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
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Avaunt, you cullions!
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Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
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Every offense is not a hate at first.
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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.
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Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
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Tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.
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Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.
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Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
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Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?
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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
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Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.
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I scorn you, scurvy companion.
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And Caesar shall go forth.
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Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers.
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Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
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For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?
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They were devils incarnate.