1. If music be the food of love, play on.
TWELFTH NIGHT, 1.1.1
2. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention
HENRY V, Prologue, 1-2
3. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
RICHARD III, 1.1.1
4. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
MACBETH, 1.1.1-2
5. Never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
ROMEO AND JULIET, 5.3.320-1
6. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
SONNET 18
7. Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.
JULIUS CAESAR, 3.1.85
8. All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players
AS YOU LIKE IT, 2.7.146-7
9. The quality of mercy is not strained.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, 4.1.190
10. The course of true love never did run smooth.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 1.1.136
11. Lord, what fools these mortals be!
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, 3.2.117
12. We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
THE TEMPEST, 4.1.73-5
13. O brave new world, that has such people in't!
THE TEMPEST, 5.1.217-8
14. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon 'em.
TWELFTH NIGHT, 2.5.149-150
15. Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.
RICHARD II, 3.2.155-6
16. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
HENRY IV, Part 2, 3.1.31
17. We have heard the chimes at midnight.
HENRY IV, Part 2, 3.2.200
18. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with
our English dead!
HENRY V, 3.1.1-2
19. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.
HENRY IV, Part 2, 4.2.68
20. A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
RICHARD III, 5.4.7
21. Frailty, thy name is woman!
HAMLET, 1.2.150
22. What a piece of work is a man!
HAMLET, 2.2.327
23. The play 's the thing.
HAMLET, 2.2.633
24. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.
HAMLET, 1.5.187-8
25. To be, or not to be: that is the question
HAMLET, 3.1.64
26. Beware the ides of March.
JULIUS CAESAR, 1.2.21
27. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to
praise him.
JULIUS CAESAR, 3.2.82-3
28. Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but
once.
JULIUS CAESAR, 2.2.34-5
29. Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
KING LEAR, 3.2.1
30. Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
MACBETH, 4.1.10-11
31. Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
MACBETH, 2.1.44-5
32. I will wear my heart upon my sleeve.
OTHELLO, 1.1.65
33. But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is
the sun.
ROMEO AND JULIET, 2.2.2
34. Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
ROMEO AND JULIET, 2.2.36
35. O, beware my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster
OTHELLO, 3.3.195-6
36. Brevity is the soul of wit
HAMLET, 2.2.97
37. The play’s the thing
HAMLET, 2.2.633
38. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
HAMLET, 5.1.190-1
39. Fair is foul, and foul is fair
MACBETH 1.1.12
40. The better part of valour is discretion
HENRY IV, Part I, 5.4.122