O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength!But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.-- William Shakespeare

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition:And gentlemen in England now a-bedShall think themselves accursed they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.-- William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is 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! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!-- William Shakespeare

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.-- William Shakespeare

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?-- William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.-- William Shakespeare

Why, then the world 's mine oyster-- William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.-- William Shakespeare

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.-- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come-- William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.-- William Shakespeare

There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.-- William Shakespeare

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.-- William Shakespeare

His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, this was a man-- William Shakespeare