Quotes Mistakenly Attributed to Shakespeare

• Oh what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808)
• No man is an island. - John Donne (The Bait, 1624)
• Come live with me and be my love. - Marlowe (Passionate Shepherd to his Love, 1599)
• For you suffer fools gladly, seeing yourself as wise. - II Corinthians 11:19.
• Remember, that time is money. - Benjamin Franklin (Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748)
• For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. - Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack)
• Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1.1)
• Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 3.8)
• I am the master of my fateI am the captain of my soul. - William Ernest Henley (Invictus, 1875)
• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850)
• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good. - John Milton (Paradise Lost, bk.iv,1.108, 1667)
• War is the trade of kings. - John Dryden (King Arthur, II.ii, 1691)
• It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. -- Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities, 1859)
• These lovely lamps, these windows of the soul. -- Guillaume Du Bartas (Divine Weekes and Workes, Sixth Day)