from THE TEMPEST

"My library
Was dukedom large enough."
Act i Sc. 2

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
Act ii Sc. 2

"He that dies pays all debts."
Act iii Sc. 2


from MEASURE FOR MEASURE

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."
Act i Sc. 4

"No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does."
Act ii Sc. 2

"The weariest and most loathed worldly life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature, is a paradise
To what we fear of death."
Act iii Sc. 1


from MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy:
I were but little happy, if I could say how much."
Act ii Sc. 1

"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."
Act iii Sc. 2

"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!
Act iv Sc. 1

"O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!"
Act iv Sc. 1


from THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

"You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care."
Act i Sc. 1

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."
Act i Sc. 2

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted."
Act v Sc. 1


from AS YOU LIKE IT

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind!
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude."
Act ii Sc. 7

"Good orators, when they are out, they will spit."
Act iv Sc. 1

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
Act v Sc. 1


from ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven."
Act i Sc. 1

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises."
Act ii Sc 1.


from KING RICHARD II

"Truth hath a quiet breast."
Act i Sc. 3

"All places that the eye of heaven visits
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens."
Act i Sc. 3


from KING HENRY V

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting."
Act ii Sc. 4


from KING HENRY VIII

"Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues."
Act iii Sc. 2


from ROMEO AND JULIET

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Act ii Sc. 2

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."
Act ii Sc. 2

"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!"
Act ii Sc. 2

"Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
Act iii Sc. 3

"One writ with me in sour misfortune's book."
Act v Sc. 3

"Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!"
Act v Sc. 3


from JULIUS CAESAR

"'T is a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend."
Act ii Sc. 1

"O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason."
Act iii Sc. 2

"His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man!'"
Act v Sc. 5


from MACBETH

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
Act i Sc. 1

"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none."
Act i Sc. 7

"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
Act iii Sc. 2

"Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break."
Act iv Sc. 3


from HAMLET

"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!"
Act i Sc. 2

"Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her."
Act i Sc. 5

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love."
Act ii Sc. 2

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"
Act iii Sc. 1

"O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"
Act iii Sc. 1

"I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
Act iii Sc. 4


from KING LEAR

"The worst is not
So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'"
Act iv Sc. 1


from OTHELLO

"The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief."
Act i Sc. 3

"O Heaven, that such companions thou 'ldst unfold,
And put in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world!"
Act iv Sc. 2