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HAMLET

"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 against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?"-(III, i, 56-61)

"This above all: to thine own self be true"-  (I,iii,78)


 "A little more than kin, and less than kind" -(I,ii,65)

"Brevity is the soul of wit"-(II,ii,100)

"Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love"-(II,ii,116-118)

"I will speak daggers to her, but use none" - (III,ii,371)

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions"-(IV,v,78-79)

 

ROMEO AND JULIET

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night"-(I,v,52-53)

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; 
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,    And I'll no longer be a Capulet"-(II,ii,33-36) 

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose   By any other name would smell as sweet"-(II,ii,43-44)

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow"-(II,ii,184)

"My only love sprung from my only hate; too early unknown and known too late"-(I,v,138)

"These violent delights have violent ends"- (II,vi,9)

"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"-(III,i,141)

"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents'strife"-(Chorus, 6-9)

"Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"-(V,iii,308-310)

 

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"-(II,vii,1037-1040)

"Can one desire too much of a good thing?"-(IV,i,1900)

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool"-(V,i,17-18)

"Your heart’s desires be with you!"-(I,ii,179)

"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak"-(III,ii,240)

"I do desire we may be better strangers"(III,ii,277)

"You were better speak first, and when you were gravelled for lack of matter, you might take occasion to kiss"-(IV,i,76)

"I pray you, do not fall in love with me,
For I am falser than vows made in wine"-(III,v,73-74)

 

TAMING OF THE SHREW

"There is a small choice in rotten apples"-(I,i,18)

"Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure"-(III,ii,13)

"This is the way to kill a wife with kindness"-(I,ii,74)

"A women moved is like a fountain troubled- muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;"-(V,ii,160-161)

"I am ashamed that women are so simple, to offer war when they should kneel for peace;"(V,ii,173-174)

"I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua."-(I,ii,74-75)

"I am as peremptory as she proud-minded.And where two raging fires meet together,They do consume the thing that makes them fury."-(II.i,131-133)

"Thou must be married to no man but me. For I am he am born to tame you, Kate And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates."-(II,i,268-271)

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

"The course of true love never did run smooth"-(I,i,134)

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind"-(I,i,235)

MACBETH

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"- (I,i,11)

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under 't" - (I,v,65-66)

 

Julius Cesar

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"- (III,ii,52)

"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings"-(I,ii,140)

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once"- (II,ii,33-34)


 

 

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