O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.
No, no, I am but shadow of myself:You are deceived, my substance is not here;
No matter where; of comfort no man speak:Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;Make dust our paper and with rainy eyesWrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth
More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;Being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears;What is it else? A madness most discreet,A choking gall, and...
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
Love comforeth like sunshine after rain,But Lust's effect is tempest after sun.Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain;Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.Love surfeits not, Lust like a...
Let me have men about me that are fat,...Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.You're on Earth. There's no cure...
It puzzles the will.
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania
If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot;Follow your spirit: and upon this charge,Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!
I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
I long to hear the story of your life, which must captivate the ear strangely.
I know you all, and will awhile upholdThe unyoked humour of your idleness.Yet herein will I imitate the sun,Who doth permit the base contagious cloudsTo smother up his beauty from the world,That when...
I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.