I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver Of my whole course of love.

William Shakespeare · Othello (1604–1605), I, iii

If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.

William Shakespeare · The source reads: “If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.” · King Henry IV, Part I, II, iv

Small things make base men proud.

William Shakespeare · King Henry VI, Part II (1590–1591), IV, i

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

William Shakespeare · As You Like It (1599–1600), I, iii

More Love Quotes

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.

Winston Churchill · My Early Life (1930)

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brontë · Jane to Rochester in the orchard at Thornfield when she believes he is to marry Blanche Ingram and she must leave him; it is this outburst that draws his proposal.

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“I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver Of my whole course of love.”

“If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned.”

“Small things make base men proud.”

“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”