I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.

A plague on both your houses.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.