Date: 1598

"Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts, / Whom thou hast whetted on thy stony heart / To stab at half an hour of my life."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"But yet you draw not iron; for my heart / Is true as steel."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"How many cowards whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk?"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture, / But, touched with human gentleness and love, / Forgive a moiety of the principal, / Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, / That have of late so huddled on his back / Enough to press a royal merchant down / And pluck commiseration of his state / From b...

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"The King's a bawcock and a heart-of-gold."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"But now behold, / In the quick forge and working-house of thought, / How London doth pour out her citizens."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1600

"From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint, / From stubborn Turks and Tartars never trained / To offices of tender courtesy. / We all expect a gentle answer, Jew."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1603

"Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel, / Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)