English Update

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Shakespeare's most memorable quotes

*Hamlet*
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.”

Act 1, Scene 3

“The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king”

Act 2, Scene 2

“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”

Act 3, Scene 1

“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath bore me on his back a thousand times, and now how abhorr’d in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it..”

Act 5, Scene 1

*A Midsummer Night's Dream*
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind”

Act 1, Scene 1

“My Oberon! What visions have I seen! Methought I was enamoured of an ass.”

Act 4, Scene 1

*Twelfth Night*
“If music be the food of love, play on.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

Act 2, Scene 5

“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.”

Act 3 Scene 1

*As you like it*
“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.”

Act 2, Scene 7

“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?“

Act 3, Scene 5

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

Act 5, Scene 1

*Merchant of Venice*
“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.”

Act 2, Scene 6

“All that glisters is not gold.”

Act 2, Scene 7

*Much Ado About Nothing*
“When you depart from me sorrow abides, and happiness takes his leave.”

Act 1, Scene 1

“Everyone can master a grief but he that has it”

Act 3, Scene 2

*Romeo and Juliet*
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

Act 2, Scene 1

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.”

Act 2, Scene 1

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet”

Act 2, Scene 2

*Henry V*
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!"

Act 3, Scene 1

*Macbeth*
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”

Act 4, Scene 1

“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.”

Act 5, Scene 5

*Sonnet 18*
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date"

*Richard II*
"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war"

Act 2 , Scene 1

*Richard III*
“Now is the winter of our discontent, Made glorious summer by this sun of York”

Act 1, Scene 1

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

Act 5, Scene 4

*Love's Labour's Lost*
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

Act 5, Scene 1

*The Tempest*
“Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade ; But doth suffer a sea-change; Into something rich and strange.”

Act 1, Scene 2

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”

Act 2, Scene 2

*Measure for Measure*
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”

Act 2, Scene 1

“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope”

Act 3, Scene 1

“What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”

Act 5, Scene 1.

*The Merry Wives of Windsor*
"Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."

Act 2, Scene 2

*Othello*
"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve; For daws to peck at."

Act 1, Scene 1

*Julius Caesar*
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him”

Act 2, Scene 2

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff”

Act 3, Scene 2

*Anthony and Cleopatra*
"My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt."

Act 1, Scene 5

*Henry IV, Part II*
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

Act 3, Scene 1

*King Lear*
"The worst is not, So long as we can say, 'This is the worst.'"

Act 4, Scene 1

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