Let me play the lion too: I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me. I will roar that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again, let him roar again.
Laurence Olivier begins his 1948 film adaptation of Hamlet with a voice-over stating, This is the tragedy of a man who could not make up his mind. Such a reading of the play, even when more elegantly...
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto m...
I hold my peace, sir? no;No, I will speak as liberal as the north;Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bankHere we will sit, and let the sounds of music
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe:Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell;If not to heaven, t...
Ay me! sad hours seem long.
Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,could ever hear by tale or history,the course of true love never did run smooth.
Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.
There's a small choice in rotten apples.
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
If you have tears prepare to shed them now.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.