William Shakespeare

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.”

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.”

“Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.”

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

“The love of heaven makes one heavenly.”

“Women may fall when there's no strength in men.”

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

“If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.”

“Men's vows are women's traitors!”

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”

“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!”

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.”

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

“No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.”

“Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.”

“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”