15/11/2020
*Shakespeare's most memorable quotes*
*Hamlet*
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”
Act 1, Scene 3
“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”
Act 2, Scene 2
“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, Or to take arms ag*inst a sea of troubles”
Act 3, Scene 1
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..”
Act 5, Scene 1
*A Midsummer Night's Dream*
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
Act 1, Scene 1
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind”
Act 1, Scene 1
“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”
Act 4, Scene 1
*Twelfth Night*
“If music be the food of love, play on.”
Act 1, Scene 1
“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
Act 2, Scene 5
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”
Act 3 Scene 1
*As you like it*
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
Act 2, Scene 7
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“
Act 3, Scene 5
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Act 5, Scene 1
*Merchant of Venice*
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”
Act 2, Scene 6
“All that glisters is not gold.”
Act 2, Scene 7
*Much Ado About Nothing*
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”
Act 1, Scene 1
“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it”
Act 3, Scene 2
*Romeo and Juliet*
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
Act 2, Scene 1
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
Act 2, Scene 1
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”
Act 2, Scene 2
*Henry V*
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!"
Act 3, Scene 1
*Macbeth*
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
Act 4, Scene 1
“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.”
Act 5, Scene 5
*Sonnet 18*
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date"
*Richard II*
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Ag*inst infection and the hand of war"
Act 2 , Scene 1
*Richard III*
“Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this sun of York”
Act 1, Scene 1
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
Act 5, Scene 4
*Love's Labour's Lost*
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
Act 5, Scene 1
*The Tempest*
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.”
Act 1, Scene 2
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
Act 2, Scene 2
*Measure for Measure*
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
Act 2, Scene 1
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope”
Act 3, Scene 1
“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”
Act 5, Scene 1.
*The Merry Wives of Windsor*
"Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."
Act 2, Scene 2
*Othello*
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at."
Act 1, Scene 1
*Julius Caesar*
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”
Act 2, Scene 2
“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff”
Act 3, Scene 2
*Anthony and Cleopatra*
"My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt."
Act 1, Scene 5
*Henry IV, Part II*
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
Act 3, Scene 1
*King Lear*
"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'"
Act 4, Scene 1
