What incensed them the most was the blatant jokes of the ones who passed it all off as a jest, pretending  to understand everything and in reality, not knowing their own minds - James Joyce, Ulysess

They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as to not die of embarrassment - Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

War is hell but that's not the half of it because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun; war is thrilling; war is drudgery; war makes you a man; war make you dead - Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done it have entertained angels without realizing it - Hebrews 13:2

Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for...the purpose of playing, whose end, both the first and the now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature - Hamlet, Act 3; scene 1

...from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, all saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observations copied there - Hamlet Act 1, scene 5

If music be the food of love, play on - Duke Orsino, Twelfth Night

Love is blind and lovers can not see the pretty follies they commit - Jessica, The Merchant of Venice

The course of true love never did run smooth - Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream

In time we hate that which we fear - Charmian, Antony and Cleopatra

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all - King Henry, Henry VI

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit - Feste, Twelfth Night

I had rather a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad - Rosalind, As You Like It

Lord, what fools these mortals be! - Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Men should be what they seem - Iago, Othello

Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them - Malvolio, Twelfth Night

Things are often spoken and seldon meant - Suffolk, Henry VI

Society is no comfort to one not sociable - Imogene, Cymbeline

All the world's stage and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts - Jaques, As You Like It

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing - MacBeth