English playwright, poet, and actor
And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
Death is a fearful thing.
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?