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“Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“It is not, nor it cannot, come to good,
But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Variant: But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
Source: Hamlet

“Good wombs have borne bad sons."
-- (Miranda, I:2)”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Source: Richard II

“What a fool honesty is.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

Source: The Winter's Tale

“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“O, let me kiss that hand!

KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2

King Henry, Act III, scene i.
Source: Henry IV, Part 2 (1597–8)

“But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish…. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I hold my peace, sir? no;
No, I will speak as liberal as the north;
Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,
All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

William Shakespeare

Source: A Midsummer Nights Dream

“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

*It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet