William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

"Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."

"To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune but to write and read comes by nature."

"Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will."

"If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ..."

"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."

"LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long."

"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me."

"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."

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."

"For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?"

"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."