English playwright, poet, and actor
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
The wheel is come full circle.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.