MACBETH: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. — Macbeth, I, vii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

GLOUCESTER: I'll be at charges for a looking-glass, And entertain some score or two of tailors, To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favour with myself, Will maintain it with some little cost. — Richard III, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

KING RICHARD III: Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead; And I would have it suddenly perform'd. — Richard III, IV, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

LEONTES: Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh? — a note infallible Of breaking honesty! — horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift? Hours, minutes? noon […]

HAMLET: My father! — methinks I see my father. HORATIO: Where, my lord? HAMLET: In my mind's eye, Horatio. — Hamlet, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

MERCUTIO: A plague o' both your houses. — Romeo and Juliet, III, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

HAMLET: You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass, and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am […]

BRUTUS: When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle. — Julius Caesar, IV, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

PAULINA: What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. — The Winter's Tale, III, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

THERSITES: A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin. — Troilus and Cressida, III, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FLAVIUS: O my good lord, the world is but a word: Were it all yours to give it in a breath, How quickly were it gone! — Timon of Athens, II, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

VALENTINE: She shall be dignified with this high honour— To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss And, of so great a favour growing proud, Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower And make rough winter everlastingly. — The Two Gentlemen […]

CALIBAN: Remember First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him As rootedly as I. — The Tempest, III, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

GUIDERIUS: I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee; For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse Than priests and fanes that lie. — Cymbeline, IV, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

CASCA: Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm? — Julius Caesar, I, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

PRINCE: Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. — 2 Henry IV, II, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

BANQUO: New honors come upon him, Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould But with the aid of use. — Macbeth, I, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FESTE: Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. — Twelfth Night, III, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

LAERTES: Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister, And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire. — Hamlet, I, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

PORTER: But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. — Macbeth, II, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

PRINCE: Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. — 1 Henry IV […]

TITUS: In peace and honour rest you here, my sons; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest, Secure from worldly chances and mishaps! Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned drugs, here are no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep: In peace and […]

ROMEO: O, I am fortune's fool! — Romeo and Juliet, III, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

LUCIUS: Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds? AARON: Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. — Titus Andronicus, V, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FRIAR LAURENCE: Hence from Verona art thou banished. Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. — Romeo and Juliet, III, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

SENATOR: I love and honour him, But must not break my back to heal his finger. — Timon of Athens, II, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

HOTSPUR: But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. — 1 Henry IV, V, iv #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

ANTONIO: In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. — The Merchant of […]

WIDOW: He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. — The Taming of the Shrew, V, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

CHARMIAN: Is't you, sir, that know things? SOOTHSAYER: In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. — Antony and Cleopatra, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

CHARMIAN: Good madam, keep yourself within yourself; the man is innocent. CLEOPATRA: Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. — Antony and Cleopatra, II, v #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

TITUS: What fool hath added water to the sea, Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy? My grief was at the height before thou camest, And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds. — Titus Andronicus, III, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

LADY MACBETH: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quench'd them hath given me fire. — Macbeth, II, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

KING HENRY V: Therefore take heed how you impawn our person, How you awake our sleeping sword of war. We charge you in the name of God take heed, For never two such kingdoms did contend Without much fall of blood, whose guiltless drops Are every one a woe, a sore complaint 'Gainst him […]

TRANIO: Music and poesy use to quicken you; The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you. — The Taming of the Shrew, I, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

CORIOLANUS: Yet oft, when blows have made me stay, I fled from words. — Coriolanus, II, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

MONTAGUE: Away from light steals home my heavy son And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out And makes himself an artificial night. — Romeo and Juliet, I, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FIRST AMBASSADOR: The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. — Hamlet, V, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

WESTMORELAND: For once the eagle England being in prey, To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs, Playing the mouse in absence of the cat, To tear and havoc more than she can eat. — Henry V, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

PANDULPH: No natural exhalation in the sky, No scope of nature, no distemper'd day, No common wind, no customed event, But they will pluck away his natural cause And call them meteors, prodigies and signs. — King John, III, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

MACBETH: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? — Macbeth, II, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

MESSENGER: The nature of bad news infects the teller. — Antony and Cleopatra, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

BEROWNE: These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. — Love's Labor's Lost, I, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

EDMUND: The wheel is come full circle. — King Lear, V, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

BRUTUS: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — Julius Caesar, IV, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FESTE: O mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming. — Twelfth Night, II, iii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

APEMANTUS: Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way! — Timon of Athens, I, ii #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

THIRD CITIZEN: When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand; When the sun sets, who doth not look for night? Untimely storms make men expect a dearth. All may be well; but if God sort it so, 'Tis more than we deserve or I expect. — […]

CLEOPATRA: My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! — Antony and Cleopatra, I, v #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation

FERDINAND: I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. — The Tempest, III, i #shakespeare #literature #quote #quotation