William Shakespeare

I would not wish any companion in the world but you.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die. I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven