William Shakespeare

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"Hell is empty, all the demons are already here."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. "

"Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. "

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go. "

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

"To do a great right do a little wrong. "

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. "

"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? "

"By that sin fell the angels."

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

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. "

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

"To be, or not to be: that is the question. "

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

"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."

"Speak low, if you speak love. "

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. "

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

"What's done can't be undone."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

"O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

"Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. "

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. "

"I was adored once too."

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."

"Listen to many, speak to a few."

"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire. "

"Give thy thoughts no tongue. "