More matter with less art.

Hamlet, 2.2.95

Words, words, words, no matter from the heart.

Troilus and Cressida, 4.3.108

Many men construe things after their fashion,

Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Julius Caesar, 1.3.34

An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Richard III, 4.4.358

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

King Lear, 1.4.346

For things are often spoke and seldom meant.

Henry IV, Pat 2, 3.1.268

It is not enough to speak, but speak true.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3.1.120

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Hamlet, 3.2.213

The lunatic, the lover and the poet

Are of imagination all compact.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5.1.4

Like a man to double business bound,

I stand in pause where I shall first begin,

And both neglect.

Hamlet, 3.3.41

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