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“the essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth: Ignatius Critical Editions

“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
And, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practise
As full of labour as a wise man's art
For folly that he wisely shows is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Please stop, sir.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assured,
As firmly as yourself were in still place -
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
O this learning, what a thing it is!”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“He that cuts off twenty years of life
Cuts off so many years of fearing death.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Get thee to a nunnery.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world”
― William Shakespeare

“jealous souls need no evidence. They aren't jealous because of a reason, but merely because they are jealous people. Jealousy is a monster that gives birth to itself.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“I must become a borrower of the night.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Well said, old mole!”
― Shakespeare

“If I lose my honor, I lose myself.”
― William Shakespeare

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“Hear the meaning within the word.”
― William Shakespeare

“Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.”
― William Shakespeare

“I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive. Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.”
― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus

“Ah, kill me with your weapon, not with words.”
― William Shakespeare

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”
― William Shakespeare

“The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.”
― William Shakespeare

“What do I fear? Myself? There’s none else by.
Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― William Shakespeare

“The worm is not to be trusted...”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Well, we were born to die.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound. There is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread, like you; feel want,
Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus,
How can you say to me I am king?”
― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello