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

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give.