Shakespeare Top 100

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Shakespeare Quotes: 100 Famous Bardisms

1. To be or not to be,–that is the question…
2. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
3. Et tu, Brute?
4. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…
5. Out, damned spot!…
6. All the world’s a stage…
7. Oh, I am fortune’s fool!
8. Then must you speak…Of One that lov’d not wisely
9. Not that I lov’d Caesar less
10. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
11. A horse! a horse!
12. What a piece of work is man!
13. Friends, Romans, countrymen…
14. So wise so young, they say do never live long
15. Give me my robe, put on my crown
16. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
17. I go, and it is done; the bell invites me
18. But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
19. We are such stuff… As dreams are made on
20. My words fly up, my thoughts remain below
21. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
22. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
23. The quality of mercy is not strain’d
24. Beware the ides of March
25. Now is the winter of our discontent
26. A plague o’ both your houses!
27. I am dying, Egypt, dying
28. Frailty, thy name is woman!
29. Why, then the world’s mine oyster
30. If music be the food of love, play on
31. Come, let’s away to prison; We two alone will sing
32. Journeys end in lovers meeting
33. The lady doth protest too much, methinks
34. O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
35. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look
36. Get thee to a nunn’ry
37. All that glisters is not gold
38. To sleep, perchance to dream
39. Nothing can come of nothing
40. The play’s the thing
41. This was the noblest Roman of them all
42. Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t
43. I am constant as the northern star
44. How now? A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
45. Was ever woman in this humour woo’d?
46. He hath given his empire
47. By the pricking of my thumbs
48. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano
49. I follow him to serve my turn upon him
50. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
51. O happy dagger!
52. Eye of newt, and toe of frog
53. O, beware, my lord of jealousy
54. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
55. My only love sprung from my only hate!
56. The barge she sat in, like a burnish’d throne
57. Cowards die many times before their deaths
58. Is this a dagger which I see before me
59. I have a kind of alacrity in sinking
60. When beggars die there are no comets seen
61. How poor are they that have not patience!
62. That he’s mad, ’tis true, ’tis true ’tis pity
63. Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind
64. The man that hath no music in himself
65. Think you I am no stronger than my sex
66. Be not afraid of greatness
67. What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
68. Off with his head!
69. Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee
70. And thus I clothe my naked villany
71. When shall we three meet again
72. This was the unkindest cut of all
73. O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!
74. Blow, blow, thou winter wind
75. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua
76. Asses are made to bear, and so are you
77. He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf
78. All the infections that the sun sucks up
79. Let every eye negotiate for itself
80. Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps
81. O, what men dare do!
82. Done to death by slanderous tongue
83. Thou art a votary to fond desire
84. I have no other but a woman’s reason
85. O, how this spring of love resembleth
86. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man
87. Is whispering nothing?
88. Here’s ado to lock up honesty
89. What’s gone and what’s past help
90. When you do dance, I wish you
91. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
92. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you
93. I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes?
94. O true apothecary!
95. This thing of darkness
96. The course of true love never did run smooth
97. We should be woo’d and were not made to woo
98. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
99. Now go we in content
100. We that are true lovers run into
101. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
102. Why then tonight let us assay our plot

~ by nancyfenn on September 28, 2007.