Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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, his acts being seven ages.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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?

If music be the food of love, play on.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Boldness be my friend.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

What's done can't be undone.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

I was adored once too.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

The wheel is come full circle.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.