William Shakespeare Excess Quotations

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.

If music be the food of love, play on: give me excess of it...