Honesty is not the best policy - merely the safest

Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.