When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.

Quote by Shakespeare

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My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more...

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

The courses of true love never did run smooth.

God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape...

God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape...

The better part of valour is discretion.

The better part of valour is discretion.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;...

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York;...

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid...

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid...

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous...

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous...

Tempt not a desperate man.

Tempt not a desperate man.

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

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

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house...

Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house...

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.