Simple Truth
My friends were poor, but honest; so’s my love.
–All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene iii

My friends were poor, but honest; so’s my love.
–All’s Well That Ends Well,
Act I, Scene iii

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions:
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done,
Than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
–Merchant of Venice,
Act I, Scene ii

At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
–Love’s Labour’s Lost,
Act I, Scene i

The course of true love never did run smooth.
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act I, Scene. i

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it.
—Measure for Measure,
Act II, Scene ii

Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
–Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act II, Scene ii

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
–Two Gentlemen of Verona,
Act III, Scene i