William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

I bear a charmed life.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.