"Between the acting of a dreadful thingAnd..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.”

“This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.”

“Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?”

“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.”

“Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.”

“Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.”

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”

“Now is not the time for making new enemies.”

“We were to equally strong types [with my husband], equally pigheaded - neither of us wanted to give in. And...I like to think those quarrels made us better, that they enlivened our life, because without them we would have had a normal life, yes, but banal and boring.”