Shakespeare Quotes - HONS3301

Lines from Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Lear, and The Tempest

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

Macbeth

And oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Banquo

There’s nothing serious in mortality all is but toys

Macduff

“My plentious joys, wanton in fullness, seek to hind themselves in drops of sorrow.”

Duncan

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow”

Macbeth

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

Lady Macbeth

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Lady Macbeth

“But get thee back, my soul is too much charg’d with blood of thine already”

Macbeth

“Is this a dagger which I see before me”

Macbeth

“the near in blood, the nearer bloody”

Malcolm

“Out, damn’d spot, out, I say!”

Lady Macbeth

“Doubl, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

Witches

Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty!”

Lady Macbeth

“O Scotland, Scotland!”

Macduff

“Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”

Macbeth

“by the grace of Grace,”

Malcolm

“Reputation, reputation, reputation!”

Casio

“I thought so then.”

Emelia

“I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable.”

Othello

“Give me the ocular proof.”

Othello

“I hate the Moor, And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets H’as done my office”

Iago

“Fill thy purse with money”

Iago

“If virtue no delighted beauty lack, your son-in-law is far more fair than black.”

Duke of Venice

“I took by th’ throat the circumcised dog and smote him-thus”

Othello

“‘tis not a year or two shows us a man: They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungrily, and when they are full they belch us.”

Emelia

“I am not what I am”

Iago

“Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds by what you see them act.”

Brabantio

“Look to her Moor, if thou hast eyes to see; She has deciev’d her father, and may thee.”

Brabantio

“Nobody; I myself. Farewell!”

Desdemona

“If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears, Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.”

Othello

“Perchance, Iago, I will ne’er go home.”

Emelia

“Myself will straight aboard, and to the state this heavy act with heavy heart relate.”

Lodovico

“To be, or to be, that is the question”

Hamlet

“Let be”

Hamlet

“I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”

Hamlet

“He’s fat, and scant of breath.”

Gertrude

“Absent thee from felicity a while, and in this harsh world draw they breath in pain to tell my story”

Hamlet

“Horatio, I am dead, Thou livest. Report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied.”

Hamlet

“I shall obey, my lord”

Ophelia

“Get thee to a nunnery”

Hamlet

“This above all: to thine own self be true,”

Polonius

“A little more than kin, and less than kind.”

Hamlet

“O, speak to me no more! These words like daggers enter in my ears.”

Gertrude

“The rest is silence.”

Hamlet

“Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

Horatio

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Hamlet

“That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft”

Hamlet

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio”

Hamlet

“How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge!”

Hamlet

“O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”

Hamlet

“I hop’d thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife.”

Gertrude

“Give me some light.”

Claudius

“‘Forgive me my foul murther’?'“

Claudius

“Use every man after his dessert, and who shall scape whipping?”

Hamlet

“O that this too too sallied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!”

Hamlet

“More matter with less art”

Gertrude

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t”

Polonius

“What a piece of work is a man”

Hamlet

“For though hast been as one in suffering all, that suffers nothing.”

Hamlet

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Marcellus

“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murther.”

Ghost

“Go bid the soldiers shoot.”

Fortinbras

“This is the excellent foppery of the world!”

Edmund

“Nothing will come of nothing”

Lear

“Do you see this? Look on her! Look her lips, Look there, look there!”

Lear

“Come let’s away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds I’ th’ cage”

Lear

“If thou’rt noble, I do forgive thee”

Edgar

“yet he hath ever but slenderly know himself.”

Regan

“Thy truth then by thy dow’r!”

Lear

“The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.”

Gloucester

“I will preserve myself, and am bethought to take the basest and most poorest shape that ever penury, in contempt of man, brought near to beast.”

Edgar

“In nothing am I changed but in my garments.”

Edgar

“But have I fall’n, or no?

Gloucester

“No cause, no cause.”

Cordelia

“Men must endure their going hence even as their coming hither, ripeness is all. Come on.”

Edgar

“Man’s life is cheap as beasts’.”

Lear

“he hates him that would upon the rack of this tough world stretch him out longer”

Kent

“The foul fiend bites my back”

Edgar

“My tears begin to take his part so much, they mar my counterfeiting.”

Edgar

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?”

Lear

“Into her womb convey sterility, dry up in her the organs of increase, and from her derogate body never spring a babe to honor her!”

Lear

“I have no way, and therefore want no eyes; I stumbled when I saw.”

Gloucester

“Out, vile jelly!”

Cornwall

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

Fool

“A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats”

Kent

“Yours in the ranks of death.”

Edmund

“You are not worth the dust that rude wind blows in your face.”

Albany

“‘Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief, burt smilingly.”

Kent

“Off, off you lendings! Come, unbutton here.”

Lear

“First, let me talk with this philosopher. What is the cause of thunder?”

Lear

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, speak what we feel, not what we ought to say: The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long”

Edgar

“A devil, a born devil on whose nature Nurture can never stick;”

Prospero

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

Trinculo

“Good wombs have born bad sons.”

Miranda

“O brave new world, That has such people in’t!”

Miranda

“IF thou dost break her virgin-knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may with full and holy rite be minist’red, no sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall to make this contract grow;”

Prospero

“You taught me language, and my profit on it is, I know how to curse.”

Caliban

“I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.”

Miranda

“I’ll be wise hereafter, and seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass was I to take this drunkard for a god, and worship this dull fool!”

Caliban

“Our revels now are ended.”

Prospero