Quotations from Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths.(Uttered by CAESAR)

Julius Caesar(1599) act2, sc2

To be, not to be; that is the question.(Uttered by HAMLET)

Hamlet(1601) act3, sc1, 1.56

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

Hamlet(1601) act1, sc1, 1.666

Brevity is the soul of wit

Hamlet(1601) act2, sc2, 1.90

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

As You Like It (1599) act 2, sc7, 1.174

Thou art not so unkind

As man’s ingratitude:

Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

All the world’s a stage,

And all the man and women merely players:

They have their exists and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages

As You like it(1599) Act 2,sc.7, 1.139

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.(uttered by lady Macbeth)

Macbeth(1606) act 5, sc.1, 1.55

Life is 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(1606) act 5, sc.5

Fair is Foul, and foul is fair.

Macbeth(1606) act 1,sc.1

A young man married is a man that’s marred.

All’s Well that Ends Well

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

As you Like It(1599) act 2, sc. 1 , 1.12

Under the greenwood tree

Who loves to lie with me,

And turn his merry note

Unto the sweet bird’s throat,

Come hither , come hither, come hither:

Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

As you Like It(1599) act 2, sc. 5 , 1.1

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

All’s Well that Ends Well act 1, scene 1

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Hamlet act 2

I must be cruel, only to be kind: thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

Hamlet act3

Frailty, thy name is woman!

As You Like It. Act 5 Scene 1

When we are born, we cry, that we are come

To this great stage of fools.