Hamlet: Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.
line from the play Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Malvolio: I am not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark.
Fool: Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
classic lines from the play Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1601)
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Casca: A common slave—you know him well by sight—
Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn
Like twenty torches join’d; and yet his hand,
Not sensible of fire, remain’d unscorch’d.
line from the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Suffolk: Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose your bondage happy, to be made a queen?
Margaret: To be a queen in bondage is more vile than is a slave in base servility; for princes should be free.
classic lines from Henry VI, Act V, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1590)
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Duke Vincentio: Nay, it is ten times strange.
Isabella: It is not truer he is Angelo
Than this is all as true as it is strange:
Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
lines from Measure for Measure, Act V, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1604)
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Balthasar: Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.
Antipholus of Ephesus: And welcome more common, for that’s nothing but words.
Balthasar: Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
lines from the play The Comedy of Errors, Act III, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1594)
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Hamlet: Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison.
Rosencrantz: Why then, your ambition makes it one. 'Tis too narrow for your mind.
classic lines from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Lady Capulet: Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.
Nurse: Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird! God forbid! Where’s this girl? What, Juliet!
classic lines from the play Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 3, script by William Shakespeare (1597)
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Lear: Now, our joy,
Although our last, and least; to whose young love
The vines of France and milk of Burgundy
Strive to be interess’d; what can you say to draw
A third more opulent than your sisters?
line from King Lear, Act I, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1606)
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John of Gaunt: O, but they say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony:
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.
lines from the play Richard II, Act II, Scene 1, script by William Shakespeare (1595)
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