I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.

Macbeth does murder sleep – the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in...

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty face from day to day.

(aside) Oh, you are well tuned now,But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.

How now! Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” Lady Macbeth

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

And nothing is, but what is not.

They say an old man is twice a child

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

Love is a wonderful, terrible thing

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

Sonnet 130My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I...

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.Act II

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;Life and these lips have long been separated:Death lies on her like an untimely frostUpon the sweetest flower of all the field.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one...

Then to the elements be free…

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

DON PEDROCome, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.BEATRICEIndeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once...

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind.

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet Grace must still look so.

Ser ou não ser, eis a questão. O que é mais nobre para a alma? Sofrer as pedradas e as setas da fortuna ultrajosa ou tomar armas contra um mar de tribulações e, fazendo-lhes rosto,...

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Men from children nothing differ.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

They met me in the day of success: and I havelearned by the perfectest report, they have more inthem than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desireto question them further, they made themselves air,into which...

All’s well if all ends well.

Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Todo el mundo es un escenario.

In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee;Fairies use flower for their charactery.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

And where two waging fires meet togetherThey do consume the thing that feeds their fury.Though little fire grows great with little wind,Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Like madness is the glory of life.

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce...

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all

He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain...

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d.

Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hitWith Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit,And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,From Love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the...

ROMEOThere is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get...

Not a whit, we defy augury: there’s a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not...

Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.

whore” upon?

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus…