Shakespear's quotes

I find the following qutoes of Shakespear to my liking. No. I didn't not read through it all within a few hours. These are quotes listed in the free Kindle book Familiar Quotations (Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition.)



TWELFTH NIGHT. 

1. Act iii. Sc. 4. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 

1. Act iii. Sc. 4. Comparisons are odorous.

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. 

1. Act v. Sc. 1. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.

MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

1. Act i. Sc. 1. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
2. Act i, Sc. 1. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing; more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. (Sounds like Shakespear is talking about me. lol)
3. Act ii. Sc. 7. All that glisters is not gold.
4. Act v. Sc. 1. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

AS YOU LIKE IT.

1. Act i. Sc. 3. Cel. Not a word? Ros. Not one to throw at a dog.
2. Act ii. Sc. 7. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale."
3. Act ii. Sc. 7. I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please.
4. Act ii. Sc. 7. 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
5. Act iii. Sc. 8. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical. (Talking about me? 8-O)
6. Act iv. Sc. 1. I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad.

TAMING OF THE SHREW. 

1. Act iv. Sc. 1, And thereby hangs a tale.

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

1. Act v. Sc. 3. Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

MACBETH.

1. Act i. Sc. 1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
2. Act i. Sc. 3. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.
3. Act i. Sc. 3. Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
4. Act iii. Sc. 2. Duncan is in his grave! After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
5. Act iii. Sc. 4. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
6. Act iv. Sc. 3. I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.
7. Act v. Sc. 5. Out, out, brief candle! 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.

KING JOHN.

1. Act iii. Sc. 4. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

KING RICHARD II. 

1. Act ii. Sc. 1. The ripest fruit first falls.{60}

FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV. 

1. Act i. Sc. 2. 'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV.

1. Act ii. Sc. 4. I was a coward on instinct.
2. Act v. Sc. 4. The better part of valor is—discretion.

SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.

1. Act i. Sc. 2. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI. 

1. Act iii. Sc. 1. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
2. Act iii. Sc. 3. He dies and makes no sign.

THIRD PART OF KING HENRY VI. 

1. Act v. Sc. 6. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

KING RICHARD III

1. Act iv. Sc. 4. An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told
2. Act v. Sc. 4. A horse! a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

JULIUS CAESAR.

1. Act i. Sc. 2. But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
2. Act ii. Sc. 2. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
3. Act iii. Sc. 2. Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
4. Act iv. Sc. 2. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

ROMEO AND JULIET.

1. Act v. Sc. 1. My poverty, but not my will, consents.

HAMLET.

1. Act i. Sc. 4. Let me not burst in ignorance!
2. Act i. Sc. 5. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
3. Act ii. Sc. 2. Brevity is the soul of wit.
4. Act ii. Sc. 2. Though this be madness, yet there's method in it.
5. Act iii. Sc. 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?—To die—to sleep— No more—and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die—to sleep— {85} To sleep! perchance, to dream—ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
6. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
7. Act iv. Sc. 5. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions!

OTHELLO.

1. Act ii. Sc. 1. For I am nothing, if not critical.
2. Act iii. Sc. 3. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster, which doth make The meat it feeds on.