Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.

-  William Shakespeare -

I pray you bear

I pray you bear me henceforth from

the noise and rumour of the field,

where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace,

and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.

-  William Shakespeare -

I hate ingratitude

I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

-  William Shakespeare -

I did never know

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart:

but the saying is true ‘The empty vessel makes the greatest sound’.

-  William Shakespeare -

God bless thee

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,

love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

-  William Shakespeare -

Free from gross passion

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish’d and deck’d in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

- William Shakespeare -

Conversation should be pleasant

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility,

witty without affectation, free without indecency,

learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

- William Shakespeare -

I clothe my naked villainy

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol’n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

- William Shakespeare -

And since you know

And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.

- William Shakespeare -