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1
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. ‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’

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hamlet

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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.’

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as you like it

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3
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‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’

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rj

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4
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Now is the winter of our discontent’

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richard 3

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5
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Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’

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macbeth

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6
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

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12th night

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7
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

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jc

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‘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.’

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the tempest

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9
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‘A man can die but once.

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henry 4

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10
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‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’

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king lear

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11
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‘Frailty, thy name is woman

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hamlet

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12
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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?’

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merchant of venice

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13
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‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

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othello

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14
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks’

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hamlet

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15
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‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’

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tempest

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16
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‘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.’

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macbeth

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17
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Get thee to a nunnery

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HAMLET

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18
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‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’

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RJ

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19
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. ‘The better part of valor is discretion’

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HENRY 4

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20
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‘To thine own self be true.’

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HAMLET

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21
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‘All that glisters is not gold.’

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MERCHANT OF VENICE

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22
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‘Nothing will come of nothing.’

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KING LEAR

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23
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. ‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

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24
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‘Lord, what fools these mortals be!’

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

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25
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‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war’

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JC

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26
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‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

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HAMET

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27
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‘A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!’

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RICHARD 3

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28
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‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’

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HAMLET

29
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‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.’

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

30
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‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’

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JC

31
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‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’

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HAMLET

32
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‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

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HAMLET

33
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‘Off with his head!’

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RICHARD 3

34
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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

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HENRY 4 PART 2

35
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‘This is very midsummer madness

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TWELFTH NIGHT

36
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. ‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

37
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‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’

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The Merry Wives of Windsor

38
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‘We have seen better days.’

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TIMON OF ATHENS

39
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. ‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’

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KING LEAR

40
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit

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HAMLET

41
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. ‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.’

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RICHARD 2

42
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What light through yonder window breaks

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RJ

43
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‘There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned’

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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

44
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. ‘Speak low if you speak love’

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MUCH ADO

45
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. ‘The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, Which hurts and is desired’

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ANTONY AND CLEO

46
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‘She’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won’

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HENRY 4

47
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‘Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service’

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TEMPEST

48
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‘Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?’

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AS YOU LIKE IT

49
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. ‘Love is a smoke and is made with the fume of sighs’

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RJ

50
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‘I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty’

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KING LEAR

51
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. ‘Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by’

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TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

52
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‘The sight of lovers feedeth those in love’

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AS YOU LIKE IT

53
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‘Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit’

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MERCHANT OF VENICE

54
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‘Love sought is good, but given unsought is better’

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TWELFTH NIGHT

55
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‘Cupid is a knavish lad, thus to make females mad’

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MSND

56
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‘Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight’

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RJ

57
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. ‘Doubt that the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move his aides, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love’

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HAMLET

58
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‘I pray you, do not fall in love with me, For I am falser than vows made in wine’

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AS YOU LIKE IT

59
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Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love’

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ANTONY AND CLEO

60
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. ‘Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties’

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RJ

61
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. ‘Love hath made thee a tame snake’

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AS YOU LIKE IT

62
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‘I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me’

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MUCH ADO

63
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‘I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you’

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OTHELLO

64
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‘You have witchcraft in your lips’

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HENRY 5

65
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I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip’

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OTHELLO

66
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‘I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say ‘I love you”

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HENRY 5

67
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Lovers ever run before the clock’

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MERCHANT OF VENICE

68
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‘Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee, and when I love thee not, chaos is come again’

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OTHELLO

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