To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune...
Hamlet, Hamlet
O that this too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Frailty, thy name is woman!
Hamlet, Hamlet
I have of late, lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercise
Hamlet, Hamlet
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison
Hamlet, Hamlet
Get thee to a nunnery
Hamlet, Hamlet
One may smile and smile and be a villain
Hamlet, Hamlet
O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven. / It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, / A brother's murder!
Claudius, Hamlet
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
Gertrude, Hamlet
. . . Give thy thoughts no tongue,/ Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thy familiar, but by no means vulgar. Neither a borrower nor a lender be
Polonius, Hamlet
This above all: to thine own self be true
Polonius, Hamlet
Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love
Polonius, Hamlet
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Polonius, Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit
Polonius, Hamlet
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
Marcellus, Hamlet
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly. He's here in double trust. Hath born his faculties so meek
Macbeth, Macbeth
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas in incarnadin
Macbeth, Macbeth
She should have died hereafter.
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty
Macbeth, Macbeth
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires
Macbeth, Macbeth
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, Macbeth
Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth
Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,�why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth
By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
Weird Sisters, Macbeth
Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
Just opposite to what thou seem'st�/ A damn�d saint, an honorable villain!
Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black browed night, Give me my romeo, and when i shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars , and he will make the face of heaven so fine, that all the world will be in love with night.
Juliet, Romeo and Juliet
These violent delights have violent ends,/And in
their triumph die, like fire and powder/Which as they kiss consume.
Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet
If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince, Romeo and Juliet
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
Beatrice, MAAN
I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
Beatrice, MAAN
The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write 'Here is good horse to hire' let them signify under my sign 'Here
Benedick, MAAN
They say the lady is fair. 'Tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous�'tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her wit�nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her
Benedick, MAAN
O Hero! What a Hero hadst thou been
If half thy outward graces had been placed
About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell
Thou pure impiety and impious purity.
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of lo
Claudio, MAAN
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Hero, MAAN
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
Don John, MAAN
It better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any / I am a plain-dealing villain
Don John, MAAN
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good
Duke, Measure
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful
Duke, Measure
It is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant
Isabella, Measure
Go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault; if it confess A natural guiltiness, such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Isabella, Measure
'But man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured'
Isabella, Measure
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
Angelo, Measure
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
Angelo, Measure
The miserable have no other medicine, but only hope.
Claudio, Measure
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall
Escalus, Measure
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Lucio, Measure
Reason and love keep little company together nowadays
Bottom, MSND
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Puck, MSND
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
Puck, MSND
If you pardon, we will mend.
Puck, MSND
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so.
He will not know what all but he do know.
And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can
Helena, MSND
She was a vixen when she went to school,/And though she be but little, she is fierce.
Helena, MSND
Ay me, for aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. . . .
Lysander, MSND
I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about t'expound this dream. Methought I was�there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had�but man is but a pat
Bottom, MSND