More Quotes from Shakespeare Flashcards
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honor’d in the breach than the observance
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 4
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Richard III in Richard III Act 1, Scene 3
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite
jest, of most excellent fancy.
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude
Amiens in As You Like It Act 2, Scene 7
A plague on both your houses!
Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 1
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!
Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra Act 1, Scene 5
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing Act 1, Scene 1
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.
Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 5, Scene 1
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
Iago in Othello Act 3, Scene 3
My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
She swore, in faith ‘twas strange, ‘twas passing strange;
‘Twas pitiful.
Othello in Othello Act 1, Scene 3
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown
me
Without my stir.
Macbeth in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2
I must be cruel only to be kind.
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 3, Scene 4
So farewell—to the little good you bear me.
Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness!
Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII Act 3, Scene 2
I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1
Ay, every inch a king!
King Lear in King Lear Act 4, Scene 6
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a
king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams.
Hamlet in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2
Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;
Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds
Brutus in Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 1