Absence makes the heart grow fonder Auteur: William Shakespeare Copy Quote More from William Shakespeare “How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attendin…” “Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For on…” “Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.” “Bear hence this body and attend our will. Mercy but murders, pardoning those th…”