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“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream

“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”

William Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?

Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?”

William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”

William Shakespeare Othello

Source: Othello

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Source: Macbeth

“Sweet are the uses of adversity
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

William Shakespeare As You Like It

Source: As You Like It

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

William Shakespeare Hamlet

Source: Hamlet

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“Thought is free.”

William Shakespeare The Tempest

Source: The Tempest

“Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”

William Shakespeare Twelfth Night

Source: Twelfth Night

“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar

Source: Julius Caesar

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow… a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

William Shakespeare Macbeth

Variant: Life... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Source: Macbeth

“turn him into stars and form a constellation in his image. His face will make the heavens so beautiful that the world will fall in love with the night and forget about the garish sun.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.”

William Shakespeare Henry V

Source: Henry V

“Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus.
Now I am dead,
Now I am fled,
My soul is in the sky.
Tongue, lose thy light.
Moon take thy flight.
Now die, die, die, die.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream