GERTRUDE: So full of artless jealousy is
guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
Hamlet, IV, v
CLAUDIUS: When sorrows come, they come not
single spies
But in battalions.
Hamlet, IV, v
OPHELIA: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember. And there is pansies; that's for thoughts.
Hamlet, IV, v
OPHELIA: There's a daisy, I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.
Hamlet, IV, v
FIRST CLOWN: What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
SECOND CLOWN: The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: Whose grave's this, sirrah?
FIRST CLOWN: Mine, sir.
HAMLET: I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't.
Hamlet, V, i
FIRST CLOWN: It was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that is mad, and sent into England.
HAMLET: Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
FIRST CLOWN: Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: Where be your gibes now? Your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chopfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that.
Hamlet, V, i
GERTRUDE: Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: Let Hercules himself do what he
may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
Hamlet, V, i
HAMLET: There's a divinity that shapes our
ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: I once did hold it, as our statists
do,
A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
How to forget that learning, but, sir, now
It did me yeoman's service.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature
comes
Between the pass and fell incensed points
Of mighty opposites.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.
Hamlet, V, ii
CLAUDIUS: Give me the cups;
And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
The cannons to the heavens, the heaven to earth,
"Now the king drinks to Hamlet." Come, begin.
Hamlet, V, ii
OSRIC: A hit, a very palpable hit.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: Had I but time -- as this fell
sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest -- O, I could tell you --
But let it be.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: Horatio, I am dead;
Thou livest; report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: If thou didst ever hold me in thy
heart
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
To tell my story.
Hamlet, V, ii
HAMLET: The rest is silence.
Hamlet, V, ii
HORATIO: Now cracks a noble heart.
Hamlet, V, ii
HORATIO: Good night sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Hamlet, V, ii
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
HORATIO: And let me speak to the yet unknowing
world
How these things came about: so shall you hear
Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,
And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I
Truly deliver.
Hamlet, V, ii
FORTINBRAS: Go bid the soldiers shoot.
Last line of Hamlet, V, ii
ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play
on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
Twelfth Night, I, i
SIR TOBY: I am sure care's an enemy to life.
Twelfth Night, I, iii
SIR ANDREW: But I am a great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Twelfth Night, I, iii
FESTE: Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.
Twelfth Night, I, v
FESTE: O mistress mine, where are you
roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming.
Twelfth Night, II, iii
FESTE: What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Twelfth Night, II, iii
SIR TOBY: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Twelfth Night, II, iii
ORSINO: For, boy, however we do praise
ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.
Twelfth Night, II, iv
VIOLA: I am all the daughters of my father's
house,
And all the brothers too.
Twelfth Night, II, iv
MALVOLIO: 'Tis but fortune; all is fortune.
Twelfth Night, II, v
MALVOLIO: (Reading) But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Twelfth Night, II, v
VIOLA: Thy reason, man?
FESTE: Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.
Twelfth Night, III, i
FESTE: Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.
Twelfth Night, III, i
OLIVIA: The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
Twelfth Night, III, i
VIOLA: Then westward ho!
Twelfth Night, III, i
OLIVIA: Why, this is very midsummer madness.
Twelfth Night, III, iv
FESTE: And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night, V, i
MALVOLIO: I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!
Twelfth Night, V, i
FESTE: When that I was and a little tiny
boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
Twelfth Night, V, i
FESTE: A great while ago the world
begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
Twelfth Night, V, i
LAFEU: He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time.
All's Well That Ends Well, I, i
LAFEU: He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge could be set up against mortality.
All's Well That Ends Well, I, i
LAFEU: Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
All's Well That Ends Well, I, i
HELENA: Our remedies oft in ourselves do
lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky
Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull
Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.
All's Well That Ends Well, I, i
COUNTESS: Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.
CLOWN: My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.
All's Well That Ends Well, I, iii
COUNTESS: Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
Clown: It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks, the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn buttock, or any buttock.
All's Well That Ends Well, II, ii
KING: Strange is it that our bloods,
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.
All's Well That Ends Well, II, iii
LAFEU: Fare you well, my lord; and believe this of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes.
All's Well That Ends Well, II, v
HELENA: (Reads) "But in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'" This is a dreadful sentence.
All's Well That Ends Well, III, ii
COUNTESS: Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.
All's Well That Ends Well, III, iv
PAROLLES: I love not many words.
SECOND LORD: No more than a fish loves water.
All's Well That Ends Well, III, vi
FIRST LORD: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
All's Well That Ends Well, IV, iii
PAROLLES: My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly scratched.
LAFEU: And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to pare her nails now.
All's Well That Ends Well, V, ii
KING: Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.
All's Well That Ends Well, V, iii
KING: Let's take the instant by the forward
top;
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time
Steals ere we can effect them.
All's Well That Ends Well, V, iii
KING: I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.
All's Well That Ends Well, V, iii
LAFEU: Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon.
All's Well That Ends Well, V, iii
ALEXANDER: They say he is a very man per se, and stands alone.
CRESSIDA: So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.
Troilus and Cressida, I, ii
CRESSIDA: Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.
Troilus and Cressida, I, ii
ULYSSES: And appetite, an universal
wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself.
Troilus and Cressida, I, iii
ULYSSES: They tax our policy, and call it
cowardice,
Count wisdom as no member of the war,
Forestall prescience, and esteem no act
But that of hand. The still and mental parts,
That do contrive how many hands shall strike
When fitness calls them on, and know, by measure
Of their observant toil, the enemies' weight--
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity:
They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;
So that the ram that batters down the wall,
For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,
They place before his hand that made the engine,
Or those that with the fineness of their souls
By reason guide his execution.
Troilus and Cressida, I, iii