Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
