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“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“I say there is no darkness but ignorance.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“Out of her favour, where I am in love.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Love me!… Why?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Source: King Lear

“Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

Variant: We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Source: King Lear

“Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?
Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed.
Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
Hamlet: Or like a whale?
Polonius: Very like a whale.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Iago”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I lov'd her that she did pity them”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Romeo”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done?
Aaron: That which thou canst not undo.
Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother.
Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”

William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus

Source: Titus Andronicus