“The better part of valour is discretion.”

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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Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.

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

All that glitters is not gold.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.