More Quotes from Shakespeare Flashcards

1
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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

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 4

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That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5

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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.

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Richard III in Richard III Act 1, Scene 3

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4
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite

jest, of most excellent fancy.

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1

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5
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude

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Amiens in As You Like It Act 2, Scene 7

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6
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A plague on both your houses!

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Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 1

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7
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My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!

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Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra Act 1, Scene 5

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8
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What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

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Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing Act 1, Scene 1

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9
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Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

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Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

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10
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If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear.

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Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 5, Scene 1

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11
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

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Iago in Othello Act 3, Scene 3

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12
Q

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.

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Othello in Othello Act 1, Scene 3

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13
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If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown
me
Without my stir.

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Macbeth in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3

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14
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A little more than kin, and less than kind.

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2

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15
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I must be cruel only to be kind.

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 3, Scene 4

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16
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So farewell—to the little good you bear me.

Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness!

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Cardinal Wolsey in Henry VIII Act 3, Scene 2

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17
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I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.

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Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1

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18
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Ay, every inch a king!

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King Lear in King Lear Act 4, Scene 6

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19
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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.

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Hamlet in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

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20
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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

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Brutus in Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 1

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21
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Things without all remedy

Should be without regard: what’s done, is done.

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Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Act 3, Scene 2

22
Q

When shall we three meet again

In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

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1st Witch in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 1

23
Q

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.

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Brutus in Julius Caesar Act 4, Scene 3

24
Q

Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.

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Polonius in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

25
Q

Dost thou think because thou

art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?

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Sir Toby in Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 3

26
Q

Not that I lov’d Caesar less, but that I lov’d Rome more.

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Brutus in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2

27
Q

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.

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Prologue to Romeo and Juliet

28
Q

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have

Immortal longings in me.

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Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra Act 5, Scene 2

29
Q

But screw your courage to the sticking place,

And we’ll not fail.

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Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7

30
Q

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

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Portia in The Merchant of Venice Act 4, Scene 1

31
Q

Done to death by slanderous tongue

Was the Hero that here lies

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Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing Act 5, Scene 3

32
Q

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

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Dick in Henry VI, Part 2 Act 4, Scene 2

33
Q

O, I am fortune’s fool!

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Romeo in Romeo and Juliet Act 3, Scene 1

34
Q

Who steals my purse steals trash; ‘tis something, nothing;
‘Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

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Iago in Othello Act 3, Scene 3

35
Q

If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly.

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Macbeth in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7

36
Q

A hit, a very palpable hit.

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Osric in Hamlet Act 5, Scene 2

37
Q

Cudgel thy brains no more about it

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First Clown in Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1

38
Q

As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods,

They kill us for their sport.

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Gloucester in King Lear Act 4, Scene 1

39
Q

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

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Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

40
Q

A thousand times good night!

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Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

41
Q

She that from whom
We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again
(And by that destiny) to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come,
In yours and my discharge.

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Antonio in The Tempest Act 2, Scene 1

42
Q

Nothing in his life

Became him like the leaving it.

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Malcolm in Macbeth Act 1, Scene 4

43
Q

He hath eaten me out of house and home

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Hostess Quickly in Henry IV, Part 2 Act 2, Scene 1

44
Q

O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;

No more of that.

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King Lear in King Lear Act 3, Scene 4

45
Q

All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him
By inch-meal a disease!

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Caliban in The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2

46
Q

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

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Hero in Much Ado About Nothing Act 3, Scene 1

47
Q

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.

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Marc Antony in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2

48
Q

Out, damn’d spot! out, I say!—One; two: why, then
‘tis time to do’t.—Hell is murky.—Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow’r to accompt?—Yet who would have thought the old man to
have had so much blood in him?

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Lady Macbeth in Macbeth Act 5, Scene 1

49
Q

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

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2nd Witch in Macbeth Act 4, Scene 1

50
Q

Et tu, Brute?

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Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1