My Favorite Shakespeare Quotes
ALL's
WELL THAT ENDS WELL by Shakespeare
Act I
Scene 1
Pg. 5 (lines 43-44) LAFEW:
Moderate lamentation is the right
of the dead; excessive grief is the enemy to the living.
Pg. 13 (lines 187-188) HELENA:
Our remedies oft in ourselves do
lie,
which we ascribe to heaven.
Act I
Scene 2
Pg. 19 (lines 59-63) KING:
'Let me not live, after my flame
lacks oil, to be the snuff
Of younger spirits, whose
apprehensive senses
All but new things disdain; whose judgments
are
mere fathers of their garments;
whose constancies
Expire before their fashions!'
Act II
Scene 3
Pg. 23 (lines 63-64) LAVATCH:
Among nine bad if one be good,
There's yet one good in ten.
ALL's
WELL THAT ENDS WELL by Shakespeare
Act II
Scene 1
Pg. 37 (lines 14-16) KING:
See that you come
Not to woo honour, but to wed it,
when
The bravest questant shrinks.
Act II
Scene 2
Pg. 49 (line 12) COUNTESS:
Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all questions.
Act II
Scene 3
Pg. 67 (line 275) PAROLLES:
A young man married is a man that's marred;
Act II
Scene 4
Pg. 69 (line 22) PAROLLES:
Away, th'art a knave.
Act II
Scene 5
Pg. 71 (line 5) LAFEW:
I took this lark for a bunting.
Act
III Scene 1
Pg. 81 (lines 4-6) FIRST
LORD: Holy seems the quarrel \ Upon your grace's part; black and
fearful \ On the opposer.
Act
III Scene 2
Pg. 83 (lines 12-13) LAVATCH:
The brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I \ begin to love, as an old man loves
money, with no stomach.
Act
III Scene 3
Pg. 91 (lines 8-11) BERTRAM:
This very day, \ Great Mars, I put myself into thy file; \ Make me but like my
thoughts, and I shall prove \ A lover of thy drum, hater of love.
Act
III Scene 4
Pg. 95 (lines 41-42) COUNTESS:
My heart is heavy, and mine age is weak; \ Grief would have tears, and
sorrow bids me speak.
Act
III Scene 5
Pg. 99 (lines 57-59) DIANA:
Alas, poor lady, \ 'Tis hard bondage to become the wife \ Of a detesting lord.
Act
III Scene 6
Pg. 105 (line 66) PAROLLES:
I love not many words.
Act
III Scene 7
Pg. 109 (lines 43-47) HELENA:
Why tonite \ Let us assay our plot, which if it speed, \ Is wicked meaning in a
lawful deed, \ And lawful meaning in a lawful act, \ Where both not sin, and yet
a sinful fact.
Act IV
Scene 1
Pg. 115 (lines 57) PAROLLES:
. . . I shall lose my life for want of language.
Act IV
Scene 2
Pg. 119 (lines 17-19) DIANA:
Ay, so you serve use \ till we serve you; but when you have our roses, \ You
barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves, \ And mock us with our bareness.
Act IV
Scene 3
Pg. 127 (lines 60-63) FIRST
LORD: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together;
our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would
despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Act IV
Scene 4
Pg. 141 (lines 35-36) LAVATCH:
All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. \ Whate'er the course,
the end is the renown.
Act IV
Scene 5
Pg. 141 (lines 1-3) LAFEW:
No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipped-taffeta fellow there, whose
villainous saffron would have made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation
in his color.
Act V
Scene 1
Pg. 151 (lines 25-26) HELENA:
All's well that ends well yet, \ Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.
Act V
Scene 2
Pg. 153 (line 22) PAROLLES:
. . . I am a man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratched.
Act V
Scene 3
Pg. 163 (line 127) KING:
I am wrapped in dismal thinkings.
KING
LEAR by William Shakespeare
Act 1
Scene 1
Pg. 19 (lines 204-5) KENT:
Fare thee well, King. Sith thus thou wilt appear, / Freedom lives
hence, and banishment is here.
Act 1
Scene 1
Pg. 25 (lines 294-6) FRANCE:
Gods, gods! 'Tis strange that from their cold'st neglect / My love
should kindle to inflamed respect.
Act 1
Scene 2
Pg. 31 (line 23) EDMOND:
Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
Act 1
Scene 2
Pg. 37 (lines 125-29) EDMUND:
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune we
make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were
villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion . . .
Act 1
Scene 2
Pg. 39 (line 191) EDMOND:
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit.
AS
YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare
Act 2
Scene 7
Pg. 38 (lines 139-42) JAQUES:
"All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women mearly players: /
They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays many
parts . . ."
Act
Scene
Pg. (lines - ) "Sweet are the
uses of adversity."
Act 1
Scene 3
Pg. (lines - ) "Now go we
content / to liberty, and not to banishment."
Act
Scene
Pg. (lines - ) "Come, woo me,
woo me; for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent."
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Act 2
Scene 2
Pg. (lines 196-97) "--What do
you read, my Lord?"
"Words, words, words."
Act 2
Scene 2
Pg. (Lines 261-3) " . . .
there is nothing either Good or Bad but thinking makes it so."
THE
BLACK PRINCE by Iris Murdoch
Pg. 9 "Those who cry out
truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent, or come to doubt
their own wit."
Pg.10 "Every artist is an
unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story."
Pg. 231-2 "We are
intermittent creatures, always falling to little ends and rising to little new
beginnings."
Pg. 107-8 "How hardening to
the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into
a bundle of struggling rags and pain."
Pg. 78 "I don't understand
how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive."
Pg. 9 "That art gives charm
to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is doom."
THE
TEMPEST by William Shakespeare
Act 1
Scene 2
(lines 106) MIRANDA:
"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
Act 1
Scene 2
(lines 366-8) CALABAN:
"You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse. The
red plague rid you / For learning me your language."
Act 2
Scene 1
(lines 10-1) ANTONIO:
"He recives comfort like cold porridge."
Act 2
Scene 2
(lines 39-40) TRINCULO:
"Misery acquaints one with strange bedfellows."
Act 4
Scene 1
(lines 156-58) PROSPERO:
"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is
rounded with a sleep."
Act 5
Scene 1
(lines 278-9) PROSPERO:
"This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine."
MEASURE
FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 13-15
"Our Natures do pursue, /
Like Rats that ravin down their proper Bane, / A Thirsty Evil, and when we
Drink, we die."
Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 26-31
"For Terror, not to Use, in
time the Rod / More mock'd than fear'd, so our Decrees, / Dead to Inflation, to
themselves are dead, / And liberty plucks Justice by the Nose, / The Baby beats
the Nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all Decorum."
Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 78-80
"Our Doubts are Traitors, /
And makes us loose the Good we oft mihgt win / By fearing to attemt."
Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 37-39
"Well: Heaven forgive him,
and forgive / us all. / Some rise by Sin, and some by Virtue fall. / Some run
from Brakes of Ice, and answer none, / And some condemned for Fault alone."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 109-11
"Oh it is excellent / To have
a Giant's Strength; but it is tyrannous / To use it like a Giant."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 164
"The Tempter, or the Tempted,
who sins most, ha?"
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 176-77
"Thieves for their Robbery
have Authority / When Judges steal themselves."
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 25-8
"If thou art Rich thou'rt
Poor: / For like an Ass whose Back with Ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy
Riches but a journey / And Death unloads thee."
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 126-9
"The weariest and most
loathed worldly Life / That Age, Ache, Perjury, and Imprisonment / Can lay on
Nature is a Paradise / To what we fear of Death."
AS
YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare
Act 2, Scene 7, lines 139-42
"All the world's a stage, /
And all the men and women mearly players: / They have their exits and their
entrances; / And one man in his time plays many parts . . ."
Act , Scene , lines
"Sweet are the uses of
adversity."
Act 1, Scene 3, lines
"Now go we content /
to liberty, and not to
banishment."
Act , Scene , lines
"Come, woo me, woo me; for
now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent."
HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Act 2, Scene 2, 196-97
"--What do you read, my
Lord?"
"Words, words, words."
MEASURE
FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 3, 13-15
"Our Natures do pursue, /
Like Rats that ravin down their proper Bane, / A Thirsty Evil, and when we
Drink, we die."
Act 1, Scene 4, 26-31
"For Terror, not to Use, in
time the Rod / More mock'd than fear'd, so our Decrees, / Dead to Inflation, to
themselves are dead, / And liberty plucks Justice by the Nose, / The Baby beats
the Nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all Decorum."
Act 1, Scene 5, 78-80
"Our Doubts are Traitors, /
And makes us lose the Good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.
ROSENCRANTZ
& GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard
pp. 17 GUIL: One,
probability is a factor which operates within natural forces. Two, probability
is not operating as factor. Three, we are now within un-, sub- or supernatural
forces. Discuss. Not too heatedly.
pp. 22 PLAYER:
Why, we grow rusty and you catch us just at the very point of decadence--by this
time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew. That's a thought,
isn't it? We'd be back where we started--improvising.
pp. 24 ROS: And
how much?
PLAYER: To take
part?
ROS: To watch.
PLAYER: Watch
what?
ROS: A private
performance.
PLAYER: How
private?
ROS: Well, there
are only two of us. Is that enough?
PLAYER: For an
audience, disappointing. For voyeurs, about average.
pp. 33 PLAYER:
We're more of the blood, love and rhetoric school.
pp. 39 GUIL: All
your life you live so close to the truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the
corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being
ambushed by a grotesque.
pp. 41 GUIL: What
a fine persecution--to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened .
. .
pp. 62 GUIL: Like
a mute in a monologue.
pp. 63 PLAYER:
We're actors--we're the opposite of people!
pp. 72 ROS: We
must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it,
before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with
the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one
direction, and time is its only measure.
pp. 77 PLAYER: .
. . you understand, we are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity
what it lacks in style.
pp. 80 PLAYER:
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
THE
BLACK PRINCE by Iris Murdoch
Pg. 9 "Those who cry out
truth to an indifferent world too often weary, fall silent, or come to doubt
their own wit."
Pg.10 "Every artist is an
unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story."
Pg. 231-2 "We are
intermittent creatures, always falling to little ends and rising to little new
beginnings."
Pg. 107-8 "How hardening to
the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into
a bundle of struggling rags and pain."
Pg. 78 "I don't understand
how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive."
Pg. 9 "That art gives charm
to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is doom."
THE
TEMPEST by William Shakespeare
Act 1
Scene 2
(lines 106) MIRANDA:
"Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
Act 1
Scene 2
(lines 366-8) CALABAN:
"You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is I know how to curse. The
red plague rid you / For learning me your language."
Act 2
Scene 1
(lines 10-1) ANTONIO:
"He receives comfort like cold porridge."
Act 2
Scene 2
(lines 39-40) TRINCULO:
"Misery acquaints one with strange bedfellows."
Act 4
Scene 1
(lines 156-58) PROSPERO:
"We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is
rounded with a sleep."
Act 5
Scene 1
(lines 278-9) PROSPERO:
"This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine."
MEASURE
FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare
Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 13-15
"Our Natures do pursue, /
Like Rats that ravin down their proper Bane, / A Thirsty Evil, and when we
Drink, we die."
Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 26-31
"For Terror, not to Use, in
time the Rod / More mock'd than fear'd, so our Decrees, / Dead to Inflation, to
themselves are dead, / And liberty plucks Justice by the Nose, / The Baby beats
the Nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all Decorum."
Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 78-80
"Our Doubts are Traitors, /
And makes us loose the Good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt."
Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 37-39
"Well: Heaven forgive him,
and forgive / us all. / Some rise by Sin, and some by Virtue fall. / Some run
from Brakes of Ice, and answer none, / And some condemned for Fault alone."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 109-11
"Oh it is excellent / To have
a Giant's Strength; but it is tyrannous / To use it like a Giant."
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 164
"The Tempter, or the Tempted,
who sins most, ha?"
Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 176-77
"Thieves for their Robbery
have Authority / When Judges steal themselves."
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 25-8
"If thou art Rich thou'rt
Poor: / For like an Ass whose Back with Ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy
Riches but a journey / And Death unloads thee."
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 126-9
"The weariest and most
loathed worldly Life / That Age, Ache, Perjury, and Imprisonment / Can lay on
Nature is a Paradise / To what we fear of Death."
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