English playwright, poet, and actor
By that sin fell the angels.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
O, had I but followed the arts!
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.