[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

Every good servant does not all commands.

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.