What are some famous quotations from Shakespeare's plays?

Answer 1

Twelfth Night"If music be the food of love, play on.", 1.1.1

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.", 2.5.156

Pericles"Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.", 2.1.29 Henry VIII"A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.", 3.2.379 Henry VI, Part II"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.", 4.2.84 Richard III"Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.", 1.1.1

"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

Henry V"Once more unto the breach, dear friends"

"The game's afoot."

"Band of brothers"

Henry IV, Part II"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.", 3.1.31 Romeo and Juliet

"O, Romeo Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." act ii, sc. ii, l. 184

"He jests at scars, that never felt a wound."

"If I profane with my un-worthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."

"A plague o' both your houses!"

Hamlet

"A little more than kin and less than kind"

"To be or not to be? That is the question."

"Neither a borrower nor lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry"

"What a piece of work is man!"

"More matter with less art"

"O, what a noble mind is here overthrown"

"Get thee to a nunnery!"

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much!"

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!"

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

"This above all: to own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"Goodnight sweet prince"

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."

"I must be cruel to be kind."

The Merchant of Venice

"If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"

"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit."

"A pound of flesh"

"The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as a gentle rain from heaven. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mighty in the mightiest. It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown."

"All that glisters is not gold"

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

The Tempest

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little lives are rounded with a sleep."

Macbeth"What's done is done."

"Out! Damned spot!"

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog,

Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,

Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,

Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."

"Fair is foul and foul is fair,

"Hover through the fog and filthy air."

''Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to dayTo the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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."

As You Like It"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Julius Caesar

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look."

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

"Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the unkindest cut of all."

"Cowards die many times before their death"

"I am as constant as the northern Star"

"He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus"

Othello

"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at." act 1, sc. i., l. 64

"Jealousy, the green-eyed monster."

Much Ado About Nothing

"Claudio: Can the world buy such a jewel

Benedick: Yea, and a case to put it in"

"Beatrice: O that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace"

King John"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily" The Merry Wives of Windsor"Why, then, all the world's mine oyster"

"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is" "All the world's a stage."

Answer 2

Shakespeare is best known for his plays, and all of the lines in the plays are said by characters in the play, not by Shakespeare himself, although he might have said some of them when he was acting the parts of characters. (Although one of Shakespeare's characters says at one point "Now might I drink hot blood!" we don't imagine Shakespeare to have been a vampire!) Shakespeare's sonnets are more likely to express his own thoughts and feelings.

Famous lines from the sonnets:

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

"Let us not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments."

"I scorn to change my state with kings."

There are so many famous lines from Shakespeare's plays that it would be difficult to limit oneself to three quotations per play. But let's try:

Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me?", "Out damned spot!", "Lay on Macduff!"

Romeo and Juliet: "a pair of star-crossed lovers", "parting is such sweet sorrow", "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Henry V: "Once more into the breach, dear friends", "this band of brothers", "the game's afoot"

Richard III: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York."

The Merchant of Venice: "a pound of flesh", "the quality of mercy is not strained", "all that glisters is not gold"

As You Like It: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.", "we have seen better days", "laid on with a trowel."

The Taming of the Shrew: "I must dance barefoot on her wedding day and for your love to her lead apes in Hell.", "Kiss me, Kate!"

Richard II: "This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England", "For God's sake, let us sit on the ground and tell sad stories of the deaths of kings." "within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king keeps death his court."

King John: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily"

Twelfth Night: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

Julius Caesar: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!", "Et tu, Brute", "Beware the Ides of March!"

Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question", "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio!", "This above all, to thy own self be true."

The Merry Wives of Windsor: "The world's mine oyster", "what the dickens his name is."

Othello: "One who loved not wisely but too well", "Beware, my lord of jealousy. It is the green-eyed monster that mocks the meat it feeds on."

King Lear: "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.", "I am a man more sinned against than sinning.", "Blow winds and crack your cheeks."

The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on", "Full fathom five thy father lies"

That's a fair sample. Bartlett's Famous Quotations devotes 88 pages to famous quotations from Shakespeare, twenty more than those from the Bible, and almost 10% of all the famous quotations from anybody whatsoever from the beginning of time.

Answer 3

"What light is light if Sylvia be not seen; what joy is joy if Sylvia be not by." (The Two Gentlemen of Verona)

"Oh, sweet gardon, better than remuneracion" (Love's Labour's Lost)

"She is a woman and therefore to be woo'ed; she is a woman and therefore to be won." (Titus Andronicus)

Answer 4

"There's method in his madness" ("Though this be madness, yet there's method in't"--Hamlet)

"All that glitters is not gold" ("All that glisters is not gold"--The Merchant of Venice)

"Gilding the lily" ("To gild refined gold, to paint the lily"--King John)

Answer 5

"To be, or not to be; that is the question." (Hamlet, 3,1)

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet" (Romeo and Juliet, 2,2)

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" (Macbeth 5,1)

Answer 6

Well, I am not sure what you mean by "Shakespeare words". If you mean words that Shakespeare used, "What are three Shakespeare words" contains four words Shakespeare used, and also his name.

If you mean words which are peculiar to Shakespeare, that is a bit more tricky. I like the word "superflux" from King Lear (it means the part left over, the extra). "Distemperature" is another (used in A Midsummer Night's Dream), which means disturbance. "Kicky-wicky" is a word used in All's Well That Ends Well that nobody knows what it means, but probably something off-colour.

If you want words which are now common but which Shakespeare is the first person to have used, how about "eyeball", "assassination", or "puking".

Answer 7

never was there a story of more woe then that of Juliet and her romeo

to be or not to be, that is the question

i will speak daggers to her but will use none

Answer 8

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