English playwright, poet, and actor
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.