1. ‘To
be, or not to be: that is the question’
(Hamlet
Act 3, Scene 1)
2. ‘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.’
(As You
Like it Act 2, Scene 7)
3.
‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’
(Romeo
and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
4. ‘Now
is the winter of our discontent’
(Richard
III Act 1, Scene 1)
5. ‘Is
this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
(Macbeth
Act 2, Scene 1)
6. ‘Some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon
them.’
(Twelfth
Night Act 2, Scene 5)
7.
‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death
but once.’
(Julius
Caesar Act 2, Scene 2)
8. ‘Full
fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that
were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into
something rich and strange.’
(The
Tempest Act 1, Scene 2)
9. ‘A man
can die but once.’
(Henry
IV, Part 2 Act 3, Part 2)
10. ‘How
sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
(King
Lear Act 1, Scene 4)
11.
‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
(Hamlet
Act 1, Scene 2)
12. ‘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?’
(The
Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 1)
13. ‘I am
one who loved not wisely but too well.’
(Othello
Act 5, Scene 2)
14. ‘The
lady doth protest too much, methinks’
(Hamlet
Act 3, Scene 2)
15. ‘We
are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a
sleep.’
(The
Tempest Act 4, Scene 1)
16.
‘Life’s 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
Act 5, Scene 5)
17.
‘Beware the Ides of March.‘
(Julius
Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
18. ‘Get
thee to a nunnery.’
(Hamlet
Act 3, Scene 1)
19. ‘If
music be the food of love play on.‘
(Twelfth
Night Act 1, Scene 1)
20.
‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’
(Romeo
and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
21. ‘The
better part of valor is discretion’
(Henry
IV, Part 1 Act 5, Scene 4)
22. ‘To
thine own self be true.‘
(Hamlet
Act 1, Scene 3)
23. ‘All
that glisters is not gold.’
(The
Merchant of Venice Act 2, Scene 7)
24.
‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to
praise him.’
(Julius
Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)
25.
‘Nothing will come of nothing.’
(King
Lear Act 1, Scene 1)
26. ‘The
course of true love never did run smooth.’
(A
Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
27.
‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’
(A
Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
28. ‘Cry
“havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘
(Julius
Caesar Act 3, Scene 1)
29.
‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’
(Hamlet
Act 2, Scene 2)
30. ‘A
horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
(Richard
III Act 5, Scene 4)
31.
‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.’
(Hamlet
Act 1, Scene 5)
32. ‘Love
looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid
painted blind.’
(A
Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1)
33. ‘The
fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are
underlings.’
(Julius
Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
34.
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
(Sonnet
18)
35. ‘Let
me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.’
(Sonnet
116)
36. ‘The
evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.’
(Julius
Caesar Act 3, Scene 2)
37. ‘But,
for my own part, it was Greek to me.’
(Julius
Caesar Act 1, Scene 2)
38.
‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend,
and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’
(Hamlet
Act 1, Scene 3)
39. ‘We
know what we are, but know not what we may be.’
(Hamlet
Act 4, Scene 5)
40. ‘Off
with his head!’
(Richard
III Act 3, Scene 4)
41.
‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.’
(Henry
IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1)
42.
‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
(The
Tempest Act 2, Scene 2)
43. ‘This
is very midsummer madness.’
(Twelfth
Night Act 3, Scene 4)
44. ‘Some
Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
(Much Ado
about Nothing Act 3, Scene 1)
45. ‘I
cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
(The
Merry Wives of Windsor Act 3, Scene 2)
46. ‘We
have seen better days.’
(Timon of
Athens Act 4, Scene 2)
47.
‘I am a man more sinned against than
sinning.’
(King
Lear Act 3, Scene 2)
48.
‘Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
(Hamlet
Act 2, Scene 2)
49. ‘This
royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this
realm, this England.’
(Richard
II Act 2, Scene 1)
50. ‘What
light through yonder window breaks.’
Romeo and
Juliet Act 2, Scene 2)
