Shakespeare Flashcards
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!
Richard III (Richard III)
All that glitters is not gold
The Merchant of Venice (Prince of Morocco)
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late
Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford)
I must be cruel, only to be kind
Hamlet (Hamlet)
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none
All’s Well That Ends Well (Countess of Roussillon)
Though this be madness, yet there is method in it
Hamlet (Polonius)
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Hamlet (Gertrude)
Brevity is the soul of wit
Hamlet (Polonius)
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go
Hamlet (Claudius)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Henry IV Part 2 (Henry IV)
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players
As You Like It (Jaques)
Be not afraid of greatness.
Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em
Twelfth Night (Malvolio)
Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage
Macbeth (Macbeth)
Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season, when in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason?
Comedy of Errors (Dromio)
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve, for daws to peck at. I am not what I am
Othello (Iago)
Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires
Macbeth (Macbeth)
The truth will out
The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot)
Suit the action to the word,
The word to the action
Hamlet (Hamlet)
We are such stuff
As dreams are made in
And our little life
Is rounded with a sleep
The Tempest (Prospero)
He will give the devil his due
Henry IV Part 1 (Prince Hal)
If music be the food of love, play on
Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino)
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once
Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar)
Why then, the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pistol)
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Macbeth (Macbeth)
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
Hamlet (Polonius)
No legacy is so rich as honesty
All’s Well That Ends Well (Mariana)
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see the petty follies that themselves commit
The Merchant of Venice (Jessica)
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief
Othello (Duke of Venice)
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck)
By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Macbeth (Second Witch)
Hell is empty and all the devils are here
The Tempest (Ariel)
The course of true love never did run smooth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander)
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it
Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
They do not love that do not show their love
Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia)
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers
Henry IV, Part 2 (Dick the Butcher)
What’s past is prologue
The Tempest (Antonio)
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit
Twelfth Night (Feste)
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?
The Merchant of Venice (Shylock)
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war
Julius Caesar (Marc Antony)
How beauteous mankind is! O, brave new world,
That has such people in it
The Tempest (Miranda)
Do you not know I am a woman?
When I think, I must speak
As You Like It (Rosalind)
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck)
There is a tide in the affairs of man
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries
Julius Caesar (Brutus)
Things without all remedy should be without regard:
What’s done is done
Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
The quality of mercy is not strained,
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
The Merchant of Venice (Portia)
