"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

"Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war."

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."

"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."

"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."

"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted."

"The good man is the friend of all living things."

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world."

"While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know."

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."