“No, I am that I am, and they that levelAt my abuses, reckon up their own;I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.--Sonnet 121”

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”

“I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit”

“You may my glories and my state depose,But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”

“Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.”

“though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king of courtesy”

“Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.”