“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Playwright and poet · 1564 – 1616

English playwright and poet, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language; author of Hamlet and Macbeth.

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All that glitters is not gold.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.