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“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Alençon, Act III, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 1 (1592)

“The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Clifford, Act II, scene ii.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)

“However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.”

William Shakespeare

Derived from a longer quote in Henry V, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
Misattributed

“Good frend for Jesus sake forbeare
To digg the dust encloased heare
Blese be the man that spares these stones
And curst be he that moves my bones”

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's epitaph

“Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”

William Shakespeare book The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece.

“The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Antony, Act III, scene ii.
Julius Caesar (1599)

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces.”

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice

Portia, Act I, scene ii.
The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)

“I was in love with my bed.”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Speed, Act II, scene i.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)

“O God! methinks, it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
How many make the hour full complete,
How many hours bring about the day,
How many days will finish up the year,
How many years a mortal man may live.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

King Henry, Act II, scene v.
Henry VI, Part 3 (1592)

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

William Shakespeare Richard III

Richard, Act V, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.”

William Shakespeare book The Rape of Lucrece

The Rape of Lucrece (1594).

“Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”

William Shakespeare Henry VI (play) Part 1-3

Cade, Act IV, scene vii.
Henry VI, Part 2 (1592)

“What a piece of work is a man!
How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!
In form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel,
in apprehension how like a god!”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet, Act II, scene ii.
Hamlet (1600–1)

“How use doth breed a habit in a man!”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Valentine, Act V, scene iv.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590–1)

“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Othello, Act V, scene ii.
Othello (1603–4)

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

William Shakespeare

Derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream on p. 269, Aphorisms from Shakespeare (1812), Capel Lofft, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, a book which rewrites in aphoristic form Shakespeare quotations, in this case the exchange between Hermia and Theseus: "I would my father look'd but with my eyes", "Rather your eyes must with his judgment look".
Misattributed

“The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water.”

William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra

Enobarbus, Act II, scene ii.
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)