The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

love is blindand lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

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

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?". - (Act III, scene I).

Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two and wear my dagger with the braver grace

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light.

The universe always helps us fight for our dreams, no matter how foolish they may be.

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

As a writer, you are free.