How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! - (Shakespeare, William - Absence)

Parting is such sweet sorrow. - (Shakespeare, William - Absence)

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings. - (Shakespeare, William - Acting and Actors)

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you -- tripping on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as Leif the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. - (Shakespeare, William - Acting and Actors)

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - (Shakespeare, William - Action)

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly. - (Shakespeare, William - Action)

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. - (Shakespeare, William - Action)

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. - (Shakespeare, William - Action)

Action is eloquence. - (Shakespeare, William - Action)

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting. - (Shakespeare, William - Adolescence)

O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites! - (Shakespeare, William - Adultery)

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. - (Shakespeare, William - Adversity)

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. - (Shakespeare, William - Adversity)

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. - (Shakespeare, William - Advice)

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice] - (Shakespeare, William - Age and Aging)