Act iii Quotes

"We have scotch'd the snake, not killed it."

Macbeth

"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."

Macbeth

"You lack the season of all natures, sleep."

Macbeth

"Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brain'd like us, the state totters."

The Tempest

"He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!"

The Tempest

"Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away. Go, vanish into air, away!"

Othello

"Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself; unaccomodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."

King Lear

"The prince of darkness is a gentleman."

King Lear

"He's mad, that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath."

King Lear

"Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool."

King Lear

"Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent."

Antony and Cleopatra

"Observe how Antony becomes his flaw"

Antony and Cleopatra

"Mine honesty and I begin to square."

Antony and Cleopatra

"You were half blasted ere I knew you"

Antony and Cleopatra

"You have been a boggler ever."

Antony and Cleopatra

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

All's Well That Ends Well

"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

Measure for Measure

"There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."

Measure for Measure

"Who woo'd in haste, and means to wed at leisure."

The Taming of the Shrew

"To me she's married, not unto my clothes."

The Taming of the Shrew

"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere."

Twelfth Night

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

Twelfth Night

"Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."

Twelfth Night

"I think we do know the sweet Roman hand."

Twelfth Night

"Why, this is very midsummer madness."

Twelfth Night

"Put thyself into the trick of singularity."

Twelfth Night

"What, man! defy the Devil: consider, he's an enemy to mankind."

Twelfth Night

"’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan."

Twelfth Night

"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."

Twelfth Night

"More matter for a May morning."

Twelfth Night

"Still, you keep o’ the windy side of the law."

Twelfth Night

"An I thought he had been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld have challenged him."

Twelfth Night

"Out of the jaws of death."

Twelfth Night

"Ay, much the force of heaven-bred poesy."

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

"Exit, pursued by a Bear."

The Winter's Tale

"Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?"

Henry IV, Part 2

"Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated: or when a man is, — being, — whereby, — he may be thought to be accommodated; which is an excellent thing."

Henry IV, Part 2

"Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble."

Henry IV, Part 2

"We have heard the chimes at midnight."

Henry IV, Part 2

"A man can die but once; — we owe God a death."

Henry IV, Part 2

"I do remember him at Clement's-inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."

Henry IV, Part 2

"The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb."

Henry VI, Part 2

"He dies, and makes no sign."

Henry VI, Part 2

"I am not in the roll of common men."

Henry IV, Part 1

"While you live, tell truth, and shame the devil."

Henry IV, Part 1

"Such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff."

Henry IV, Part 1

"Exceedingly well read."

Henry IV, Part 1

"A good mouth-filling oath."

Henry IV, Part 1

"A fellow of no mark, nor likelihood."

Henry IV, Part 1

"An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a church! Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me."

Henry IV, Part 1

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