Pat Markham

“What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd.”
― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“we know what we are, but know not
what we may be.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“He says he loves my daughter. I think so too, for never gazed the moon upon the water as he'll stand and read as 'twere my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, I think there is not half a kiss to choose who loves another best.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale