"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

"This rough magicI here abjure, and, when I have requiredSome heavenly music, which even now I do,To work mine end upon their senses thatThis airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,And deeper than did ever plummet soundI'll drown my book."

"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."

"There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting."

"If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,When other petty griefs have done their spite,But in the onset come: so shall I tasteAt first the very worst of fortune's might;And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so."

"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."

"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."

"I'll take thy word for faith not ask thine oath Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both."

"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"

"Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."

"Mother, you have my father much offended."

"QUINCEFrancis Flute, the bellows-mender.FLUTEHere, Peter Quince.QUINCEFlute, you must take Thisby on you.FLUTEWhat is Thisby? a wandering knight?QUINCEIt is the lady that Pyramus must love.FLUTENay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."

"Afore me! It is so very late,That we may call it early by and by."

"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of manThat function is smothered in surmise,And nothing is but what is not."

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."

"I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence."

"Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow."

"When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail,And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul,Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-whit! To-who!-a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doe blow,And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl,To-whit! To-who!-a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot."

"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."

"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves."

"To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be, it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away."

"He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."

"Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft."

"My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

"I to myself am dearer than a friend."

"Then I defy you, stars!"

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her."

"Such as we are made of such we be."

"My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."

"God befriend us as our cause is just!"

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"

"Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy."

"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."

"Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."

"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."

"Lord what fools these mortals be!"

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."

"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."

"Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving."