Shakespeare Quotes Flashcards
‘To be, or not to be: that is the question’
Hamlet
‘Frailty, thy name is woman.’
Hamlet
The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Hamlet
Get thee to a nunnery.
Hamlet
To thine own self be true.‘
Hamlet
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit.‘
Hamlet
‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.’
Hamlet
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Hamlet
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.’
As You Like It
Now is the winter of our discontent’
Richard III
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!‘
Richard III
‘Off with his head!’
Richard III
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
Macbeth
‘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.’
Macbeth
Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’
Macbeth
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
12th Night
‘If music be the food of love play on.‘
12th Night
‘This is very midsummer madness.’
12th Night
‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
Julius Caesar
‘Beware the Ides of March.‘
Julius Caesar
‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’
Julius Caesar
‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war‘
Julius Caesar
‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’
Julius Caesar
‘The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
Julius Caesar
‘But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.’
Julius Caesar
‘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.’
Tempest
‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.’
Tempest
‘Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.’
Tempest
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!’
King Lear
‘Nothing will come of nothing.’
King Lear
‘I am a man more sinned against than sinning.’
King Lear
‘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
‘All that glisters is not gold.’
The Merchant of Venice
‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
Othello
‘Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.’
Much Ado About Nothing
‘I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.’
Merry Wives of Windsor
We have seen better days
Timon of Athens
‘This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle… This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Richard II
What light through yonder window breaks
Romeo and Juliet
‘Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’
Romeo and Juliet
‘What’s in a name? A rose by any name would smell as sweet.’
Romeo and Juliet
As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
Gloucester speaks these words as he wanders on the heath after being blinded by Cornwall and Regan
