I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.
William ShakespeareIt was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
William ShakespeareMy father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
William ShakespeareThis rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
William Shakespeare