This above all: to thine own self be true.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Sweets to the sweet.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

Trust, but verify.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Knowledge is no burden.

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

Its so funny whenever things come full circle.