Quotes from Shakespeare

Question 1

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them.

Answer 1

Hamlet in Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1

Question 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.

Answer 2

Jaques in As You Like it Act 2, Scene 7

Question 3

Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Answer 3

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 4

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York

Answer 4

Gloucester in Richard III Act 1, Scene 1

Question 5

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?

Answer 5

Macbeth in Macbeth Act 2, Scene 1

Question 6

Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Answer 6

Malvolio (reading from a letter by Maria) in Twelfth Night Act 2, Scene 5

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Caesar in Julius Caesar Act 2, Scene 2

Question 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.

Answer 8

Ariel in The Tempest Act 1, Scene 2

Question 9

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

Answer 9

King Lear in King Lear Act 1, Scene 4

Question 10

Frailty, thy name is woman.

Answer 10

Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2

Question 11

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?

Answer 11

Shylock in The Merchant of Venice Act 3, Scene 1

Question 12

Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well.

Answer 12

Othello in Othello Act 5, Scene 2

Question 13

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

Answer 13

Queen Gertrude in Hamlet Act 3, Scene 2

Question 14

We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Answer 14

Prospero in The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Macbeth in Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

Question 16

Beware the Ides of March.

Answer 16

Soothsayer in Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

Question 17

Get thee to a nunnery.

Answer 17

Hamlet (to Ophelia) in Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1

Question 18

If music be the food of love, play on.

Answer 18

Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night Act 1, Scene 1

Question 19

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Answer 19

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 20

The better part of valor is discretion.

Answer 20

Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 Act 5, Scene 4

Question 21

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Answer 21

Polonius in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3

Question 22

All the glitters is not gold. (Originally “glisters” for glitters.)

Answer 22

The note read by the Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice Act 2, Scene 7

Question 23

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.

Answer 23

Mark Antony in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 2

Question 24

Nothing will come of nothing.

Answer 24

King Lear in King Lear Act 1, Scene 1

Question 25

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Answer 25

Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1

Question 26

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Cry ‘Havoc,’ and let slip the dogs of war

Answer 27

Mark Antony in Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Hamlet in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 29

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

Answer 29

Richard III in Richard III Act 5, Scene 4

Question 30

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Answer 30

Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5

Question 31

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Answer 31

Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 1, Scene 1

Question 32

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Answer 32

Cassius in Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Casca in Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

Question 34

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend

Answer 34

Polonius in Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3

Question 35

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.

Answer 35

Henry IV in Henry IV, Part 2 Act 3, Scene 1

Question 36

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Answer 36

Trinculo in The Tempest Act 2, Scene 2

Question 37

I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

Answer 37

King Lear in King Lear Act 3, Scene 2

Question 38

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Answer 38

Polonius in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 39

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle. . . . This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

Answer 39

John of Gaunt in Richard II Act 2, Scene 1

Question 40

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

Answer 40

Romeo in Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 41

Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none

Answer 41

The Countess in All’s Well That Ends Well Act 1, Scene 1

Question 42

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother

Answer 42

Henry V in Henry V Act 4, Scene 3

Question 43

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Answer 43

Henry V in Henry V Act 3, Scene 1

Question 44

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Answer 44

The witches in Macbeth Act 4, Scene 1

Question 45

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.

Answer 45

Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing Act 2, Scene 3

Question 46

O God, that I were a man! I
would eat his heart in the marketplace.

Answer 46

Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing Act 4, Scene 1

Question 47

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Answer 47

Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act 3, Scene 2

Question 48

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god!

Answer 48

Hamlet in Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2

Question 49

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.

Answer 49

Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra Act 2, Scene 2

Question 50

O brave new world
That has such people in’t!

Answer 50

Miranda in The Tempest Act 5, Scene 1