English playwright, poet, and actor
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
An overflow of good converts to bad.
I must be cruel, only to be kind.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.