2.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it
so.
Hamlet in Hamlet
3. From womens eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.
Berowne in Loves Labors Lost
4. The wheel is come full circle: I am here.
Edmund in King Lear
5. All the worlds 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.
Jaques in As You Like It
6. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Escalus in Measure for Measure
7. I burn, I pine, I perish.
Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew
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9. This above all: to thine ownself be true.
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Polonius in Hamlet
10. Come, lets away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds i the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, Ill kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so well live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news.
Lear in King Lear
11. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stoln
the scraps.
Moth in Loves Labors Lost
12. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.
Boy in Henry V
13. For your brother and my sister no sooner
met, but they looked; no sooner looked, but they
loved; no sooner loved, but they sighed; no sooner
sighed, but they asked one another the reason; no
sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
Rosalind in As You Like It
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15. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Puck in A Midsummer Nights Dream
16. Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing
17. I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that
strange?
Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing
18. 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 in Julius Caesar
19. Action is eloquence.
Volumnia in Coriolanus
20. Lifes but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth in Macbeth
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22. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon them.
Malvolio in Twelfth Night
23. Come what come may, time and the hour runs through
the roughest day.
Macbeth in Macbeth
24. Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest.
The Fool in King Lear
25. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Dauphin in Henry V
26. Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Lucio in Measure for Measure
