Famous quotes by William Shakespeare:

1. "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,
   And by opposing end them?"
   From Hamlet (III, i, 56-61)

2. "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"
   --From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 33)

3. "Et tu, Brute?"
   --From Julius Caesar (III, i, 77)

4. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
   Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
   To the last syllable of recorded time;
   And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
   The way to dusty death. 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."
   --From Macbeth (V, v, 19)

5. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
   --From Macbeth (V, i, 38)

6. "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,
   His acts being seven ages."
   --From As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143)

7. "Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
   --From Romeo and Juliet (III, i, 141)

8. "Then must you speak
   Of One that lov'd not wisely but too well."
   --From Othello (V, ii, 343-344)

9. "Not that I lov'd Caesar less, but that I lov'd Rome more."
   -- From Julius Caesar (III, ii, 22)

10. "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow."
    -- From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 185)

11. "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"
    --From King Richard III (V, iv, 7)

12. "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."
    --From Hamlet (II, ii, 315-317)

13. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
    I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
    --From Julius Caesar (III, ii, 78-79)

14. "A plague o' both your houses!"
    --From Romeo and Juliet (III, i, 94)

15. "Off with his head!"
    --From King Richard III (III, iv, 76)

16. "O happy dagger!
    This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."
    --From Romeo and Juliet (V, iii, 169-170)

17. "Journeys end in lovers meeting,
    Every wise man's son doth know."
    --From Twelfth Night (II, iii, 44-45)

18. "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
    --From Hamlet (III, iii, 100-103)

19. "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
    --From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)

20. "So wise so young, they say do never live long."
    --From King Richard III (III, i, 79)