Comme Il Vous Plaira

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.””

— William Shakespeare

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.””

— William Shakespeare

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.””

— William Shakespeare

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.””

— William Shakespeare

“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.””

— William Shakespeare

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.””

— William Shakespeare

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.””

— William Shakespeare

“Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.””

— William Shakespeare

“No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...””

— William Shakespeare