Quotations by play*

• All's Well That Ends Well

  Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
  (Lafew, Act 1 Scene 1)

  Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. 
  (Countess, Act 1 Scene 1)

  'T were all one
  That I should love a bright particular star
  And think to wed it, he is so above me.
  (Helen, Act 1 Scene 1)

  The hind that would be mated by the lion,
  Must die for love.
  (Helen, Act 1 Scene 1)

  His good remembrance, sir,
  Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb.
  (Bertram, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Service is no heritage.
  (Lavatch, Act 1 Scene 3)

  If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
  (Lavatch, Act 1 Scene 3)

  Even so it was with me when I was young.
  If we are nature’s, these are ours. This thorn
  Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong.
  Our blood to us, this to our blood is born:
  It is the show and seal of nature’s truth,
  Where love’s strong passion is impressed in youth.
  By our remembrances of days foregone,
  Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.
  (Countess, Act 1 scene 3)

  Great floods have flown
  From simple sources, and great seas have dried
  When miracles have by the great’st been denied.
  (Helen, Act 2 scene 1)

  A young man married is a man that's marred.
  (Parolles, Act 2 scene 3)

  No legacy is so rich as honesty.
  (Mariana, Act 3 Scene 5)

  The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
  (First Lord, Act 4 scene 3)

  All's well that ends well, still the fine's the crown;
  Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
  (Helen, Act 4 Scene 4)

  For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees
  Th’inaudible and noiseless foot of time
  Steals ere we can effect them.
  (King, Act 5 Scene 3)

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• Antony and Cleopatra

  And you shall see in him
  The triple pillar of the world transformed
  Into a strumpet's fool.
  (Philo, Act 1 Scene 1)

  Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
  Of the ranged empire fall: here is my space.
  (Antony, Act 1 Scene 1)

  O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
  (Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 5)

  My salad days,
  When I was green in judgement, cold in blood.
  (Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 5)

  Age cannot wither her, not custom stale
  Her infinite variety.
  (Enobarbus, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Egypt, thou knew'st too well
  My heart was to thy rudder tied by th'strings
  And thou shouldst tow me after.
  (Antony, Act 3 Scene 11)

  I found you as a morsel cold upon
  Dead Caesar's trencher.
  (Antony, Act 3 Scene 13)

  The odds is gone
  And there is nothing left remarkable
  Beneath the visiting moon.
  (Cleopatra, Act 4 Scene 15)

  Antony 
  Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see
  Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness
  I'th'posture of a whore.
  (Cleopatra, Act 5 Scene 2)

  Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies
  A lass unparalleled.
  (Charmian, Act 5 Scene 2)

  She shall be buried by her Antony,
  No grave upon the earth shall clip in it
  A pair so famous.
  (Caesar, Act 5 Scene 2)

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• 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,
  His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
  Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
  Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel
  And shining morning face, creeping like snail
  Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
  Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
  Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
  Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
  Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
  Seeking the bubble reputation
  Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
  In fair round belly, with a good capon lined,
  With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
  Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
  And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
  Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
  With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
  His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
  For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
  Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
  And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
  That ends this strange eventful history,
  Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
  Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
  (Jaques, Act 2 Scene 7)

  Well said, that was laid on with a trowel. 
  (Celia, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, 
  From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother
  (Orlando, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  O, how full of briars is this working-day world! 
  (Rosalind, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
  (Rosalind, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
  Frosty, but kindly. 
  (Adam, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  In thy youth thou wast as true a lover 
  As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow.
  (Silvius, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  We that are true lovers run into strange capers.
  (Touchstone, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.
  (Rosalind, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  Under the greenwood tree... 
  (Amiens, Act 2 Scene 5)
  
  I met a fool i’ the forest, 
  A motley fool.
  (Jaques, Act 2 Scene 7)
  
  And thereby hangs a tale.
  (Jaques, Act 2 Scene 7)
  
  Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak. 
  (Rosalind, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Down on your knees, 
  And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. 
  (Rosalind, Act 3 Scene 5)
  
  I pray you do not fall in love with me, 
  For I am falser than vows made in wine.
  (Rosalind, Act 3 Scene 5)
  
  Forever and a day. 
  (Orlando, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
  (Orlando, Act 5 Scene 2)

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• The Comedy of Errors

  I to the world am like a drop of water
  That in the ocean seeks another drop,
  Who, falling there to find his fellow forth - 
  Unseen, inquisitive - confounds himself.
  (Antipholus of Syracuse, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Every why hath a wherefore.
  (Dromio of Syracuse,  Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
  Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
  Known unto these and to myself disguised?
  I'll say as they say, and persever so,
  And in this mist at all adventures go.
  (Antipholus of Syracuse, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
  (Balthazar, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  O, villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name:
  The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.
  (Dromio of Ephesus, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  If everyone knows us and we know none,
  'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.
  (Antipholus of Syracuse, Act 3 Scene 2) 
  
  He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
  Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere,
  Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,
  Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
  (Adriana, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
  (Dromio of Syracuse,  Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  A hungry lean-faced villain,
  A mere anatomy.
  (Antipholus of Ephesus, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
  (Dromio of Ephesus, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• Coriolanus

  Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
  (Volumnia, Act 1 Scene 3)

  If any think brave death outweighs bad life, 
  And that his country's dearer than himself,
  Let him alone, or so many so minded, 
  Wave thus to express his disposition,
  (Martius, Act 1 Scene 6)

  Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
  (Sicinius, Act 2 Scene 1)

  More of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians.
  (Menenius, Act 2 Scene 1)

  What is the city but the people?
  (Sicinius, Act 3 Scene 1)

  But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic,
  And manhood is called foolery when it stands
  Against a falling fabric.
  (Cominius, Act 3 Scene 1)

  His nature is too noble for the world:
  He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
  Or Jove for’s power to thunder.
  (Menenius, Act 3 Scene 1)

  Action is eloquence.
  (Volumnia, Act 3 scene 2)

  There is a world elsewhere.
  (Coriolanus, Act 3 Scene 3)

  Anger's my meat: I sup upon myself,
  And so shall starve with feeding.
  (Volumnia, Act 4 Scene 2)

  Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's sprightly waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible: a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
  (First Servingman, Act 4 Scene 5)

  If you have writ your annals true, ’tis there,
  That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
  Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
  Alone I did it. Boy!
  (Coriolanus, Act 5 scene 6)

  My rage is gone,
  And I am struck with sorrow.
  (Aufidius, Act 5 Scene 6)

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• Cymbeline

  Lest the bargain should catch cold and starve.
  (Iachimo, Act 1 Scene 4)

  Boldness be my friend:
  Arm me audacity from head to foot!
  (Iachimo, Act 1 Scene 6)

  Every jack-slave hath his bellyfull of fighting.
  (Cloten,  Act 2 Scene 1)

  How bravely thou becom'st thy bed!
  (Iachimo, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,
  Nice longing, slanders, mutability, 
  All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,
  Why, hers, in part of all.
  (Posthumus, Act 2 Scene 4)

  Our cage
  We make a choir, as doth the prisoned bird,
  And sing our bondage freely.
  (Arviragus, Act 3 Scene 3)

  The game is up.
  (Belarius, Act 3 Scene 3)

  'Tis slander,
  Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
  Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
  All corners of the world.
  (Pisanio, Act 3 Scene 4)

  I have not slept one wink.
  (Pisanio, Act 3 Scene 4)

  I see a man’s life is a tedious one.
  (Innogen, Act 3 Scene 6)

  All gold and silver rather turn to dirt.
  (Arviragus, Act 3 Scene 6)

  Play judge and executioner all himself.
  (Guiderius, Act 4 Scene 2)

  Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
  Nor the furious winter's rages,
  Thou thy worldly task hast done,
  Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages.
  Golden lads and girls all must,
  As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
  (Guiderius, Act 4 Scene 2)

  Hang there like fruit, my soul, 
  Till the tree die.
  (Posthumus, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Hamlet

  O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt,
  Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
  (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
  For loan oft loses both itself and friend, 
  And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
  (Polonius, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  ...though I am native here
  And to the manner born, it is a custom 
  More honoured in the breach than the observance.
  (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
  (Marcellus, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  That one may smile and smile and be a villain.
  (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
  Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.
  (Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  Brevity is the soul of wit.
  (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2) 
  
  Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
  (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2) 
  (This is often summarised or misquoted as: 'There's method in his madness')
  
  There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
  (Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! 
  (Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  To be, or not to be, that is the question.
  (Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  The lady protests too much, methinks.
  (Gertrude, Act 3 Scene 2)
  (This is often misquoted as: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much')
  
  How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge. 
  (This famous soliloquy by Hamlet appears only in the Second Quarto in an extended Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: A fellow of infinite jest.  
  (Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 1)
  (This is often misquoted as: 'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well')
  
  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, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  The rest is silence. 
  (Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  Goodnight, sweet prince,
  And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
  (Horatio, Act 5 Scene 2)

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• Henry IV Part I

  In those holy fields,
  Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
  Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
  For our advantage on the bitter cross.
  (King Henry IV, Act 1 Scene 1)

  Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches in the afternoon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.
  (Prince Henry, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.
  (Falstaff, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Yet herein will I imitate the sun,
  Who doth permit the base contagious clouds
  To smother up his beauty from the world.
  (Prince Henry, Act 1 Scene 2)

  By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,
  To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,
  Or dive into the bottom of the deep,
  Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,
  And pluck up drowned honour by the locks.
  (Hotspur, Act 1 Scene 3)

  It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.
  (Prince Henry, Act 2 Scene 2)

  There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.
  (Falstaff, Act 2 Scene 4)

  That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in years?
  (Prince Henry, Act 2 Scene 4)

  Falstaff: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.
  Prince Henry: I do, I will.
  (Act 2 Scene 4)

  While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!
  (Hotspur, Act 3 Scene 1)

  He was but as the cuckoo is in June,
  Heard, not regarded.
  (King Henry IV, Act 3 Scene 2)

  This sickness doth infect
  The very life-blood of our enterprise.
  (Hotspur, Act 4 Scene 1)

  Food for powder, food for powder. They’ll fill a pit as well as better.
  (Falstaff, Act 4 Scene 2)

  Can Honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is Honour? A word. What is that word ‘honour’? Air. 
  (Falstaff, Act 5 Scene 1)

  O, Harry, thou hast robbed me of my youth!
  (Hotspur, Act 5 Scene 3)

  Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,
  But not remembered in thy epitaph!
  (Prince Henry, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Henry IV Part II

  Rumour is a pipe
  Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
  And of so easy and so plain a stop
  That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
  The still-discordant wavering multitude,
  Can play upon it.
  (Rumour, Induction)

  Let heaven kiss earth! Now let not Nature's hand
  Keep the wild flood confined! Let order die!
  And let this world no longer be a stage
  To feed contention in a ling’ring act.
  (Northumberland, Act 1 Scene 1)

  I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
  (Falstaff, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Since all is well, keep it so: wake not a sleeping wolf.
  (Lord Chief Justice, Act 1 Scene 2)

  We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
  (Hastings, Act 1 Scene 3)

  Past and to come, seem best; things present worst.
  (Archbishop of York, Act 1 Scene 3)

  He hath eaten me out of house and home.
  (Hostess Quickly, Act 2 Scene 1)

  Let the end try the man.
  (Prince Henry, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
  (Prince Henry, Act 2 Scene 2)

  He was indeed the glass
  Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
  (Lady Percy, Act 2 Scene 3)

  Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
  (King Henry IV, Act 3 Scene 1)

  A man can die but once: we owe a death.
  (Feeble, Act 3 Scene 2)

  We have heard the chimes at midnight.
  (Falstaff, Act 3 Scene 2)

  Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
  (King Henry IV, Act 4 Scene 2)

  Commit
  The oldest sins the newest kind of ways.
  (King Henry IV, Act 4 Scene 4)

  His cares are now all ended.
  (Warwick, Act 5 Scene 2)

  Falstaff: My king, my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!
  King Henry V: I know thee not, old man. Fall to thy prayers.
  How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!
  (Act 5 Scene 5)

  Presume not that I am the thing I was.
  (King Henry V, Act 5 Scene 5)

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• Henry V

  O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend
  The brightest heaven of invention,
  A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
  And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
  (Chorus, Prologue)

  Can this cockpit hold
  The vasty fields of France? Or may we cram
  Within this wooden O, the very casques
  That did affright the air at Agincourt? 
  (Chorus, Prologue)

  Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
  Or close the wall up with our English dead.
  (King Henry, Act 3 Scene 1)

  The game's afoot:
  Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
  Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’
  (King Henry, Act 3 Scene 1)

  Men of few words are the best men.
  (Boy, Act 3 Scene 2)

  That’s a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
  (Orleans, Act 3 Scene 7)

  I think the king is but a man, as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. 
  (King Henry, Act 4 Scene 1)

  Every subject’s duty is the king’s, but every subject’s soul is his own.
  (King Henry, Act 4 Scene 1)

  This story shall the good man teach his son,
  And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
  From this day to the ending of the world,
  But we in it shall be remembered;
  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
  For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
  Shall be my brother.
  (King Henry, Act 4 Scene 3)

  There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
  (Fluellen, Act 5 Scene 1)

  A good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon— or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. If thou would have such a one, take me: and take me, take a soldier: take a soldier, take a king.
  (King Henry, Act 5 Scene 2)

  Dear Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of manners, Kate.
  (King Henry, Act 5 Scene 2)

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• Henry VI Part I

  My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel:
  I know not where I am, nor what I do.
  (Talbot, Act 1 Scene 5)

  I have heard it said, unbidden guests
  Are often welcomest when they are gone.
  (Bedford, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
  And never yet could frame my will to it,
  And therefore frame the law unto my will.
  (Suffolk, Act 2 Scene 4)

  I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement:
  But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
  Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
  (Warwick, Act 2 Scene 4)

  Here I prophesy: this brawl today, 
  Grown to this faction in the Temple garden, 
  Shall send, between the red rose and the white, 
  A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
  (Warwick, Act 2 Scene 4)

  Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
  (Reignier, Act 3 Scene 2)

  No simple man that sees 
  This jarring discord of nobility, 
  This shouldering of each other in the court,
  This factious bandying of their favourites, 
  But that it doth presage some ill event.
  (Exeter, Act 4 Scene 1)

  I owe him little duty, and less love.
  (Somerset, Act 4 Scene 4)

  Here on my knee I beg mortality, 
  Rather than life preserved with infamy.
  (John, Act 4 Scene 5)

  So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
  Keeping them prisoners underneath her wings.
  (Suffolk, Act 5 Scene 3)

  She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed;
  She is a woman, therefore to be won.
  (Suffolk, Act 5 Scene 3)

  To be a queen in bondage is more vile
  Than is a slave in base servility.
  (Margaret, Act 5 Scene 3)

  Marriage is a matter of more worth
  Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.
  (Suffolk, Act 5 Scene 5)

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• Henry VI Part II

  Main chance.
  (Warwick, Act 1 Scene 1) 
  
  Is this the fashions in the court of England?
  Is this the government of Britain's isle?
  And this the royalty of Albion's king?
  (Queen Margaret, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
  I'd set my ten commandments in your face.
  (Eleanor, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  How irksome is this music to my heart! 
  When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
  (King Henry VI, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep:
  And in his simple show he harbours treason.
  (Suffolk, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.
  (Suffolk, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  The commons, like an angry hive of bees
  That want their leader, scatter up and down
  And care not who they sting in his revenge.
  (Warwick, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  For where thou art, there is the world itself,
  With every several pleasure in the world:
  And where thou art not, desolation.
  (Suffolk, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Small things make base men proud.
  (Suffolk, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  True nobility is exempt from fear.
  (Suffolk, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
  (Dick the butcher, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o’er, should undo a man?
  (Cade, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.
  (Cade, Act 4 Scene 7)
  
  And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
  Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
  (Saye, Act 4 Scene 7)
  
  Can we outrun the heavens?
  (King Henry VI, Act 5 Scene 2)

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• Henry VI Part III

  Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,
  In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.
  (Westmorland, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown,
  Within whose circuit is Elysium
  And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  O, tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!
  (York, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible,
  Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.
  (York, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  To weep is to make less the depth of grief:
  Tears then for babes; blows and revenge for me.
  (Richard, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
  (Clifford, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  O God! Methinks it were a happy life,
  To be no better than a homely swain,
  To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
  To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
  Thereby to see the minutes how they run:
  (King Henry VI, Act 2 Scene 5)
  
  Let me embrace the sour adversaries
  For wise men say it is the wisest course.
  (King Henry VI, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  My crown is in my heart, not on my head.
  (King Henry, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
  (Gloucester, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  For trust not him that hath once broken faith.
  (Lady Grey, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
  (Gloucester, Act 4 Scene 7)
  
  And live we how we can, yet die we must.
  (Warwick, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
  (Gloucester, Act 5 Scene 6)

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• Henry VIII

  Order gave each thing view.
  (Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Be to yourself
  As you would to your friend.
  (Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
  That it do singe yourself.
  (Norfolk, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake
  That virtue must go through.
  (Cardinal Wolsey, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  The mirror of all courtesy.
  (Second Gentleman, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  'Tis better to be lowly born,
  And range with humble livers in content,
  Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief,
  And wear a golden sorrow.
  (Anne, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  Orpheus, with his lute made trees,
  And the mountain tops that freeze,
  Bow themselves when he did sing.
  (Woman, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  I have touched the highest point of all my greatness,
  And from that full meridian of my glory,
  I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
  Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
  And no man see me more.
  (Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  I feel within me
  A peace above all earthly dignities,
  A still and quiet conscience.
  (Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  A load would sink a navy: too much honour.
  (Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee:
  Corruption wins not more than honesty.
  (Cardinal Wolsey, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues
  We write in water.
  (Griffith, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Those about her
  From her shall read the perfect ways of honour.
  (Cranmer, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Julius Caesar

  Beware the Ides of March.
  (Soothsayer, Act 1 Scene 2)

  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.
  (Cassius, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look:
  He thinks too much: such men are dangerous 
  (Caesar, Act 1 Scene 2)

  But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. 
  (Casca, Act 1 Scene 2)

  Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods.
  (Brutus, Act 2 Scene 1)

  When beggars die there are no comets seen: 
  The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
  (Calphurnia,Act 2, Scene 2)

  Cowards die many times before their deaths, 
  The valiant never taste of death but once. 
  (Caesar, Act 2 Scene 2)

  Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Caesar.
  (Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1)

  Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
  (Antony, Act 3 Scene 1)

  Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
  (Brutus, Act 3 Scene 2)

  Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. 
  (Antony, Act 3, Scene 2)

  This was the most unkindest cut of all. 
  (Antony, Act 3 Scene 2)

  There is a tide in the affairs of men. 
  (Brutus, Act 4 Scene 3)

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• King John

  And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;
  For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
  (Bastard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.
  (Bastard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  For courage mounteth with occasion.
  (Austria, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  I would that I were low laid in my grave:
  I am not worth this coil that’s made for me.
  (Arthur, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  He is the half part of a blessed man,
  Left to be finished by such as she:
  And she a fair divided excellence,
  Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
  (Citizen, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity,
  Commodity, the bias of the world. 
  (Bastard, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  I will instruct my sorrows to be proud,
  For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
  (Constance, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Grief fills the room up of my absent child:
  Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
  Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
  Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
  Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.
  (Constance, Act 3 scene 3)
  
  When Fortune means to men most good,
  She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.
  (Cardinal Pandulph, Act 3 Scene 4)
  
  And oftentimes excusing of a fault
  Doth make the fault the worse by th’excuse.
  (Pembroke, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  We cannot hold mortality’s strong hand.
  (King John, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
  Make deeds ill done!
  (King John, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Be great in act as you have been in thought.
  (Bastard, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• King Lear

  Cordelia: Nothing.
  Lear: Nothing can come of nothing, speak again. 
  (Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Now, gods, stand up for bastards! 
  (Edmund, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
  To have a thankless child! 
  (Lear, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. 
  (Fool, Act, 1 Scene 5)

  Blow winds and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow, 
  You cataracts and hurricanoes. 
  (Lear, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  I am a man 
  More sinned against than sinning.
  (Lear, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods: 
  They kill us for their sport. 
  (Gloucester, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  So distribution should undo excess, 
  And each man have enough.
  (Gloucester, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  They told me I was everything: 'tis a lie, I am no ague-proof.
  (Lear, Act 4 Scene 5)
  
  Get thee glass eyes, 
  And like a scurvy politician seem 
  To see the things thou dost not. 
  (Lear, Act 4 Scene 5)
  
  When we are born, we cry that we are come 
  To this great stage of fools. 
  (Lear, Act 4 Scene 5)
  
  Men must endure 
  Their going hence, even as their coming hither. 
  (Edgar, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down 
  And ask of thee forgiveness. 
  (Lear, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life, 
  And thou no breath at all? 
  (Lear, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  We that are young 
  Shall never see so much, nor live so long. 
  (Edgar, Act 5 Scene 3)

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• Love's Labour's Lost

  Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
  Live registered upon our brazen tombs, 
  And then grace us in the disgrace of death 
  When, spite of cormorant devouring time,
  Th'endeavour of this present breath may buy
  That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
  And make us heirs of all eternity.  
  (King, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Our court shall be a little academe, 
  Still and contemplative in living art.  
  (King, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  As painfully to pore upon a book 
  To seek the light of truth, while truth the while 
  Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.  
  (Berowne, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit: write, pen, for I am for whole volumes in folio.  
  (Armado, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, 
  Not uttered by base sale of chapmen's tongues  
  (Princess of France, Act 2 Scene 1) 
  
  Your wit’s too hot, it speeds too fast, ‘twill tire.   
  (Berowne, Act 2 Scene 1) 
  
  O me, with what strict patience have I sat,
  To see a king transformed to a gnat! 
  To see great Hercules whipping a gig, 
  And profound Solomon tuning a jig,
  And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,
  And critic Timon laugh at idle toys.   
  (Berowne, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
  They are the ground, the books, the academes
  From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire.  
  (Berowne, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.  
  (Moth, Act 5 Scene 1) 

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• Macbeth

  First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
  In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
  Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done,
  When the battle's lost and won.
  Third Witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
  First Witch: Where the place?
  Second Witch: Upon the heath.
  Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth.
  (Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
  Hover through the fog and filthy air.
  (Witches, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
  It were done quickly.
  (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)
  
  Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  (Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold:
  What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
  (Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!
  Macbeth does murder sleep:  the innocent sleep,
  Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care,
  The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
  Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
  Chief nourisher in life's feast.
  (Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
  Clean from my hand?
  (Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2) 
  
  It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood.
  (Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4)
  
  Double, double toil and trouble:
  Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
  (Witches, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  By the pricking of my thumbs,
  Something wicked this way comes.
  (Second Witch, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
  Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill
  Shall come against him.
  (Third apparition, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  What's done cannot be undone.
  (Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  And let the angel whom thou still hast served
  Tell thee: Macduff was from his mother's womb
  Untimely ripped.
  (Macduff, Act 5 Scene 7)
  
  Lay on, Macduff,
  And damned be him that first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’
  (Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 7)

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• Measure for Measure

  Our doubts are traitors, 
  And make us lose the good we oft might win 
  By fearing to attempt.
  (Lucio, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 
  (Escalus, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Condemn the fault and not the actor of it? 
  (Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  O, it is excellent 
  To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous 
  To use it like a giant.
  (Isabella, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Is this her fault or mine? 
  The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
  (Angelo, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  The miserable have no other medicine 
  But only hope.
  (Claudio, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
  (Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
  (Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  O, what may man within him hide, 
  Though angel on the outward side!
  (Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Truth is truth 
  To th’end of reck’ning.
  (Isabella, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure, 
  Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure.
  (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
  (Duke, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• The Merchant of Venice

  I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
  A stage where every man must play a part,
  And mine a sad one.
  (Antonio, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
  (Portia, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?
  (Shylock, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  How like a fawning publican he looks!
  I hate him for he is a Christian,
  But more, for that in low simplicity
  He lends out money gratis and brings down
  The rate of usance here with us in Venice. 
  (Shylock, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 
  (Antonio, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. 
  (Bassanio, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Mislike me not for my complexion, 
  The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.
  (Morocco, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  It is a wise father that knows his own child. 
  (Lancelet, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  In the twinkling.
  (Lancelet, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  But love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
  The pretty follies that themselves commit.
  (Jessica, Act 2 Scene 6)
  
  All that glisters is not gold. 
  (Morocco, Act 2 Scene 7)
  
  Young in limbs, in judgement old.
  (Morocco, Act 2 Scene 7)
  
  The portrait of a blinking idiot.
  (Aragon, Act 2 Scene 9)
  
  Let him look to his bond.
  (Shylock, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  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? 
  (Shylock, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Tell me where is fancy bred, 
  Or in the heart or in the head? 
  (Singer, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
  (Duke, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  The quality of mercy is not strained,
  It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
  Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: 
  It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 
  (Portia, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 
  (Jessica, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  The man that hath no music in himself, 
  Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
  Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. 
  The motions of his spirit are dull as night
  And his affections dark as Erebus. 
  Let no such man be trusted. 
  (Lorenzo, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• The Merry Wives of Windsor

  All his successors - gone before him - hath done’t, and all his ancestors - that come after him –may. 
  (Slender, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Thou art the Mars of malcontents.  
  (Pistol, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King's English.  
  (Mistress Quickly, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  I love not the humour of bread and cheese.  
  (Nim, Act 2 Scene 1) 
  
  Why, then the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open. 
  (Pistol, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Marry, this is the short and the long of it.  
  (Mistress Quickly, Act 2 Scene 2) 
  
  Setting the attractions of my good parts aside, I have no other charms. 
  (Falstaff, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Falstaff: Of what quality was your love, then?  
  Ford: Like a fair house built on another man’s ground  
  (Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.  
  (Ford, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  A man of my kidney.  
  (Falstaff, Act 3 Scene 5)
  
  Why, woman, your husband is in his old lines again: he so takes on yonder with my husband, so rails against all married mankind, so curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.  
  (Mistress Page, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 
  (Mistress Page, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. 
  (Falstaff, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  O powerful Love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other a man a beast.
  (Falstaff, Act 5 Scene 5)
  
  I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.  
  (Falstaff, Act 5 Scene 5)
  
  In love the heavens themselves do guide the state.
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. 
  (Ford, Act 5 Scene 5)

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• A Midsummer Night's Dream

  The course of true love never did run smooth.
  (Lysander, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
  And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
  (Helena, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  I must go seek some dewdrops here,
  And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
  (Fairy, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
  (Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
  Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
  Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
  With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
  There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, 
  Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.
  (Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art translated.
  (Quince, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?
  (Titania, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
  (Bottom, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd.
  She was a vixen when she went to school,
  And though she be but little, she is fierce.
  (Helena, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.
  (Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Jack shall have Jill, 
  Nought shall go ill,
  The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
  (Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Methought I was enamoured of an ass.
  (Titania, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  I have had a most rare vision. I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was… The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
  (Bottom, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  ...not a mouse 
  Shall disturb this hallowed house.
  I am sent with broom before,
  To sweep the dust behind the door.
  (Puck, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  If we shadows have offended,
  Think but this, and all is mended,
  That you have but slumbered here
  While these visions did appear.
  (Puck, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• Much Ado About Nothing

  There's a skirmish of wit between them. 
  (Leonato, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke. 
  (Don Pedro, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.
  (Beatrice, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  As merry as the day is long. 
  (Beatrice, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Speak low if you speak love. 
  (Don Pedro, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Friendship is constant in all other things, 
  Save in the office and affairs of love.
  (Claudio, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.
  (Benedick, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  I will not be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster.
  (Benedick, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
  (Benedick, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
  (Hero, Act 3, Scene 1)
  
  Everyone cannot master a grief but he that has it. 
  (Benedick, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Are you good men and true?
  (Dogberry, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
  (Beatrice, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  For there was never yet philosopher 
  That could endure the toothache patiently.
  (Leonato, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
  (Benedick, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
  (Benedick, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  Peace! I will stop your mouth.
  (Leonato, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Othello

  But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
  For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
  (Iago, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
  Is tupping your white ewe.
  (Iago, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  She wished she had not heard it, yet she wished
  That heaven had made her such a man.
  (Othello, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  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 me
  How to respect you. You are the lord of duty,
  I am hitherto your daughter.
  (Desdemona, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. 
  (Iago, Act 1 scene 3)
  
  Put money in thy purse.
  (Iago, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  If after every tempest come such calms,
  May the winds blow till they have wakened death!
  (Othello, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
  (Cassio, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  O, beware, my lord, of jealousy:
  It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
  The meat it feeds on.
  (Iago, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  O, now, for ever
  Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content.
  (Othello, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
  They are all but stomachs, and we all but food:
  They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
  They belch us.
  (Emilia, Act 3 Scene 4)
  
  Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
  Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
  And smooth as monumental alabaster.
  (Othello, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
  All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
  (Emilia, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  I kissed thee ere I killed thee: no way but this,
  Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
  (Othello, Act 5 scene 2)

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• Pericles

  To sing a song that old was sung
  From ashes ancient Gower is come
  (Gower, Prologue)
  
  For death remembered should be like a mirror
  Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.
  (Pericles, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Few love to hear the sins they love to act
  (Pericles, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke.
  (Pericles, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Which care of them, not pity of myself,
  Who am no more but as the tops of trees. 
  Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,
  Makes both my body pine and soul to languish.
  (Pericles, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  ‘Tis time to fear when tyrants seems to kiss.
  (Pericles, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  My Dionzya, shall we rest us here
  And by relating tales of others’ griefs 
  See if ‘twill teach us to forget our own?
  (Cleon, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
  (Cleon, Act 1 Scene 4)
  
  Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
  (First Fisherman, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Opinion's but a fool that makes us scan
  The outward habit for the inward man.
  (Simonides, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  The diamonds of a most praised water
  Doth appear, to make the world twice rich.
  (Cerimon, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  That she would make a puritan of the devil if he should cheapen a kiss of her
  (Bawd, Act 4 Scene 5)
  
  O, come, be buried
  A second time within these arms. 
  (Pericles, Act 5 Scene 3)

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• Richard II

  Forget, forgive, conclude and be agreed:
  Our doctors say this is no time to bleed.
  (King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  We were not born to sue, but to command.
  (King Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  King Richard: Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.
  Gaunt: But not a minute, king, that thou canst give.
  (Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, 
  This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars.
  (Gaunt, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
  (Gaunt, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Landlord of England art thou and not king.
  (Gaunt, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  The ripest fruit first falls.
  (King Richard, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Come, lords, away. 
  To fight with Glendower and his complices;
  A while to work and after holiday.
  (Bullingbrook, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
  Can wash the balm from an anointed king.
  (King Richard, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  For heaven’s sake let us sit upon the ground
  And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
  (King Richard, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  See, see, King Richard doth himself appear, 
  As doth the blushing discontented sun 
  From out the fiery portal of the east.
  (Bullingbrook, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  What must the king do now? Must he submit?
  The King shall do it.
  (Richard, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee 
  From plume-plucked Richard, who with willing soul 
  Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields 
  To the possession of thy royal hand.
  (York, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  With mine own tears I wash away my balm, 
  With mine own hands I give away my crown.
  (Richard, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  The shadow of your sorrow hath destroyed 
  The shadow of your face.
  (Bullingbrook, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  Doubly divorced? Bad men, ye violate 
  A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me 
  And then betwixt me and my married wife.
  (King Richard, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
  (King Richard, Act 5 Scene 5)
  
  For now the devil that told me I did well 
  Says that this deed is chronicled in hell. 
  This dead king to the living king I'll bear. – 
  Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.
  (Exton, Act 5 Scene 5)
  
  Though I did wish him dead, 
  I hate the murd’rer, love him murdered.
  (King Henry, Act 5 Scene 6)
  
  I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land 
  To wash this blood off from my guilty hand.
  (King Henry, Act 5 Scene 6)

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• Richard III

  Now is the winter of our discontent 
  Made glorious summer by this sun of York. 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front. 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  This weak piping time of peace. 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, 
  To entertain these fair well-spoken days, 
  I am determined to prove a villain
  And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Was ever woman in this humour wooed? 
  Was ever woman in this humour won? 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Since every Jack became a gentleman 
  There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  And thus I clothe my naked villany 
  With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ; 
  And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 
  (Richard, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  So wise so young, they say, do never live long. 
  (Richard, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Talk'st thou to me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor: 
  Off with his head! 
  (Richard, Act 3 Scene 4)
  
  I am not in the giving vein to-day. 
  (Richard, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell. 
  (Richard, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end. 
  (Duchess of York, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 
  (Richard, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  Harp not on that string. 
  (Richard, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; 
  Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 
  (Richmond, Act 5 Scene 2)
  
  Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
  Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
  (Richard, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  The king's name is a tower of strength. 
  (Richard, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, 
  And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
  And every tale condemns me for a villain. 
  (Richard, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse! 
  (Richard, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Romeo and Juliet

  A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
  (Chorus, Prologue)
  
  Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
  Sampson: I do bite my thumb, sir.
  (Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
  It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
  (Romeo, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
  (Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  That which we call a rose 
  By any other word would smell as sweet.
  (Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Parting is such sweet sorrow.
  (Juliet, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  For this alliance may so happy prove, 
  To turn your households' rancour to pure love.
  (Friar Laurence, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  These violent delights have violent ends.
  (Friar Laurence, Act 2 Scene 5)
  
  A plague o' both your houses!
  (Mercutio, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
  (Prince, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!
  (Friar Laurence, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
  I tell thee what: get thee to church o'Thursday, 
  Or never after look me in the face.
  (Capulet, Act 3 Scene 5)
  
  Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink: I drink to thee.
  (Juliet, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  O true apothecary, 
  Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. 
  (Romeo, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  O happy dagger, 
  This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die.
  (Juliet, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  All are punished.
  (Prince, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  For never was a story of more woe 
  Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
  (Prince, Act 5 Scene 3)

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• The Taming of the Shrew

  No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en:
  In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
  (Tranio, Act 1 Scene 1)

  There's small choice in rotten apples.
  (Hortensio, Act 1 Scene 1)

  Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain
  She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:
  Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear
  As morning roses newly washed with dew:
  Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
  Then I'll commend her volubility,
  And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:
  If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,
  As though she bid me stay by her a week:
  If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day
  When I shall ask the banns and when be married.
  (Petruchio, Act 2 Scene 1)

  You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate,
  And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst,
  But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom,
  Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate
  (Petruchio, Act 2 Scene 1)

  If I be waspish, best beware my sting. 
  (Katherina, Act 2 Scene 1)

  Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice
  To change true rules for old inventions.
  (Bianca, Act 3 Scene 1)

  Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, 
  And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. 
  And if you please to call it a rush-candle,
  Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.
  (Katherina, Act 4 Scene 5)

  Fie, fie! Unknit that threat'ning unkind brow,
  And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,
  To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor.          
  (Katherina, Act 5 Scene 1)

  Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,
  Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,
  But that our soft conditions and our hearts
  Should well agree with our external parts?
  (Katherina, Act 5 Scene 1)

  Why, there’s a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. 
  (Petruchio, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• The Tempest

  O, I have suffered
  With those that I saw suffer.
  (Miranda, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  My library was dukedom large enough.
  (Prospero,  Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Ferdinand, 
  With hair up-staring – then like reeds, not hair – 
  Was the first man that leaped; cried ‘Hell is empty
  And all the devils are here.’
  (Ariel, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  For I am all the subjects that you have,
  Which first was mine own king.
  (Caliban, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 
  (Trinculo, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Hast thou not dropped from heaven?
  (Caliban, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  I am your wife, if you will marry me:
  If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
  You may deny me, but I'll be your servant,
  Whether you will or no.
  (Miranda, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  The clouds methought would open and show riches
  Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked,
  I cried to dream again.
  (Caliban, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
  As I foretold you, were all spirits and
  Are melted into air, into thin air;
  And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
  The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
  The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
  Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
  And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
  Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff 
  As dreams are made on: and our little life 
  Is rounded with a sleep.
  (Prospero, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
  In a cowslip's bell I lie:
  There I couch when owls do cry.
  On the bat's back I do fly
  After summer merrily.
  Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
  (Ariel, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  O, wonder!
  How many goodly creatures are there here!
  How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
  That has such people in't.
  (Miranda, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  As you from crimes would pardoned be,
  Let your indulgence set me free.
  (Prospero, Epilogue) 

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• Timon of Athens

  The fire i’th' flint
  Shows not till it be struck
  (Poet, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  I am not of that feather to shake off
  My friend when he must need me.
  (Timon, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner—
  Honest water—which ne'er left man i'th’mire.
  (Apemantus, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Like madness is the glory of this life.
  (Apemantus, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
  (Apemantus, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Their blood is caked, ‘tis cold, it selfdom flows:
  'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind.
  (Timon, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
  (Lucullus, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
  (First Senator, Act 3 Scene 6)
  
  Timon will to the woods, where he shall find
  Th’unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
  The gods confound — hear me, you good gods all —
  Th’Athenians both within and out that wall,
  And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
  To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.
  (Timon, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  'We have seen better days.'
  (Flavius, Act 4 scene 2)
  
  Strange, unusual blood,
  When man’s worst sin is he does too much good!
  (Flavius, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate
  With thy most operant poison!
  (Timon, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  What beast couldst thou be that were not subject to a beast? And what a beast art thou already, that see’st not thy loss in transformation!
  (Timon, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  The moon's an arrant thief, 
  And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. 
  (Timon, Act 4 Scene 3)
  
  You are an alchemist, make gold of that.
  (Timon, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  'Here lies a wretched corpse, of wretched soul bereft.
  Seek not my name. A plague consume you wicked caitiffs left!
  Here lie I, Timon, who alive all living men did hate:
  Pass by and curse they fill, but pass and stay not here thy gait.'
  (Alcibiades, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• Titus Andronicus

  O cruel, irreligious piety!
  (Tamora, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  Content thee, prince, I will restore to thee
  The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.
  (Titus, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  And make them know what 'tis to let a queen
  Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain. 
  (Tamora, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  She is a woman, therefore may be wooed:
  She is a woman, therefore may be won:
  She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
  (Demetrius, Act 2 Scene 1)
  
  Madam, though Venus govern your desires,
  Saturn is dominator over mine.
  (Aaron, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
  Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
  (Aaron, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  The worse to her, the better loved of me.
  (Tamora, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,
  Like to a bubbling fountain stirred with wind,
  Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,
  Coming and going with thy honey breath.
  (Marcus, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
  That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
  (Titus, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Alas, poor man! Grief has so wrought on him, 
  He takes false shadows for true substances.
  (Marcus, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
  Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
  Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
  Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
  (Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  I have done a thousand dreadful things
  As willingly as one would kill a fly,
  And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
  But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
  (Aaron, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee,
  And with thy shame thy father’s sorrow die!
  (Titus, Act 5 Scene 3)
  
  O, let me teach you how to knit again
  This scattered corn into one mutual sheaf,
  These broken limbs again into one body.
  (Marcus, Act 5 Scene 3)

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• Troilus and Cressida

  Her bed is India: there she lies, a pearl.
  (Troilus, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  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. 
  (Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing. 
  That she beloved knows nought that knows nought this: 
  Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
  (Cressida, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
  Observe degree, priority and place,
  Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
  Office and custom, in all line of order.
  (Ulysses, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  There is seen
  The baby figure of the giant mass
  Of things to come at large.
  (Nestor, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  We turn not back the silks upon the merchant 
  When we have spoiled them.
  (Troilus, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
  (Thersites, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able.
  (Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, 
  Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 
  A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: 
  Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured 
  As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 
  As done. 
  (Ulysses, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
  (Ulysses, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  A plague of opinion! A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
  (Thersites, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  Time, force and death, 
  Do to this body what extremity you can; 
  But the strong base and building of my love 
  Is as the very centre of the earth, 
  Drawing all things to it. 
  (Cressida, Act 4 Scene 2)
  
  There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
  Nay, her foot speaks, her wanton spirits look out
  At every joint and motive of her body.
  (Ulysses, Act 4 Scene 5)
  
  The end crowns all,
  And that old common arbitrator, Time,
  Will one day end it.
  (Hector, Act 4 Scene 5)

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• Twelfth Night

  If music be the food of love, play on.
  (Orsino, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  What country, friends, is this? 
  (Viola, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  But I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. 
  (Sir Andrew, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  I'll do my best 
  To woo your lady. – Yet, a barful strife! 
  Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. 
  (Viola, Act 1, Scene 4)
  
  Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
  (Feste, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
  (Feste, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  Make me a willow cabin at your gate, 
  And call upon my soul within the house. 
  (Viola, Act 1, Scene 5)
  
  How now? 
  Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
  (Olivia, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  O time, thou must untangle this, not I. 
  It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
  (Viola, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? 
  (Sir Toby, Act 2, Scene 3)
  
  I was adored once too.
  (Sir Andrew, Act 2 Scene 3)
  
  She pined in thought, 
  And with a green and yellow melancholy 
  She sat like patience on a monument, 
  Smiling at grief. 
  (Viola, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
  (Malvolio, Act 2 Scene 5)
  
  Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. 
  (Feste, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
  (Fabian, Act 3 Scene 4)
  
  Prove true, imagination, O, prove true, 
  That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!
  (Viola, Act Scene 4)
  
  One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, 
  A natural perspective that is and is not!
  (Orsino, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
  (Feste, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
  (Malvolio, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  Cesario, come – 
  For so you shall be, while you are a man. 
  But when in other habits you are seen, 
  Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen. 
  (Orsino, Act 5 Scene 1)

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• The Two Gentlemen of Verona

  For he was more than over-shoes in love.
  (Proteus, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  I have no other, but a woman's reason:
  I think him so because I think him so.
  (Lucetta, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  They do not love that do not show their love. 
  (Julia, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  You, minion, are too saucy.
  (Julia, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  O hateful hands, to tear such loving words;
  Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey
  And kill the bees that yield it, with your stings!
  I'll kiss each several paper for amends.
  (Julia, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  O, how this spring of love resembleth 
  The uncertain glory of an April day, 
  Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
  And by and by a cloud takes all away. 
  (Proteus, Act 1 Scene 3)
  
  I'll be as patient as a gentle stream,
  And make a pastime of each weary step,
  Till the last step have brought me to my love,
  And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil,
  A blessed soul doth in Elysium.        
  (Julia, Act 2 Scene 7)
  
  That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man,
  If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
  (Valentine, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  Love is like a child
  That longs for every thing that he can come by.
  (Duke, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  And why not death, rather than living torment?
  To die is to be banished from myself;
  And Silvia is myself: banished from her,
  Is self from self. A deadly banishment:
  What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
  What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
  (Valentine, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  She dreams on him that has forgot her love,
  You dote on her that cares not for your love.
  'Tis pity love should be so contrary:
  And thinking on it makes me cry 'Alas'.
  (Julia, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  O heaven, were man
  But constant, he were perfect.
  (Proteus, Act 5 Scene 4)

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• The Two Noble Kinsmen

  Come all sad and solemn shows,
  That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes:
  We convent naught else but woes.
  We convent naught else but woes.
  (Three Queens, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  This world's a city full of straying streets, 
  And death's the market-place where each one meets.
  (Third Queen, Act 1 Scene 5)
  
  Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish
  If I think this our prison.
  (Arcite, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  It is the very emblem of a maid.
  For when the west wind courts her gently,
  How modestly she blows and paints the sun
  With her chaste blushes. When the north comes near her,
  Rude and impatient, then, like chastity,
  She locks her beauties in her bud again,
  And leaves him to base briars.
  (Emilia, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Fie, sir. You play the child extremely. 
  (Arcite, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  Once he kissed me.
  I loved my lips the better ten days after:
  Would he would do so every day!
  (Jailer’s Daughter, Act 2 Scene 4)
  
  O you heavens, dares any
  So nobly bear a guilty business? None
  But only Arcite: therefore none but Arcite 
  In this kind is so bold.
  (Palamon, Act 3 Scene 1)
  
  ‘Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.
  (Hippolyta, Act 4 scene 2)
  
  I am bride-habited,
  But maiden-hearted.
  (Emilia, Act 5 Scene 1)
  
  O great corrector of enormous times,
  Of dusty and old titles, that heal’st with blood
  The earth when it is sick, and cur’st the world
  O'th’pleurisy of people.
  (Arcite, Act 5 scene 1)

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• The Winter's Tale

  I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.
  (Archidamus, Act 1 Scene 1)
  
  How say you?
  My prisoner? Or my guest? by your dread 'Verily',
  One of them you shall be.
  (Hermione, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  What we changed
  Was innocence for innocence. We knew not
  The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
  That any did.
  (Polixenes, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Be plainer with me. Let me know my trespass
  By its own visage; if I then deny it,
  'Tis none of mine.
  (Camillo, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  Is this nothing?
  Why then the world and all that’s in’t is nothing:
  The covering sky is nothing, Bohemia nothing,
  My wife is nothing, nor nothing have these nothings,
  If this be nothing.
  (Leontes, Act 1 Scene 2)
  
  The silence often of pure innocence
  Persuades when speaking fails.
  (Paulina, Act 2 Scene 2)
  
  It shall scarce boot me
  To say 'Not guilty': mine integrity
  Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
  Be so received. But thus: if powers divine
  Behold our human actions, as they do,
  I doubt not then but innocence shall make
  False accusation blush and tyranny
  Tremble at patience.
  (Hermione, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Apollo's angry, and the heavens themselves
  Do strike at my injustice.
  (Leontes, Act 3 Scene 2)
  
  Exit, pursued by a bear.
  (Stage direction, Act 3 Scene 3)
  
  Since it is in my power
  To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour
  To plant and o'erwhelm custom.
  (Time, Act 4 Scene 1)
  
  Ha, ha! What a fool honesty is! 
  (Autolycus, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance
  (Autolycus, Act 4 Scene 4)
  
  I am ashamed. Does not the stone rebuke me
  For being more stone than it?
  (Leontes, Act 5 Scene 3)

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