SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Twelfth Night

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Twelfth Night

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Orsino, Duke of Illyria: If music be the food of love, play on;

Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken and so die.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 1, pg. 1  

Toby Belch: He plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, pg. 2  

Orsino Duke of Illyria: Be not denied access, stand at her doors, and tell them there that fixed foot shall grow Til thou have audience.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, pg. 4  

Olivia: I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief;
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 5, pg. 6  

Malvolio: My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to grabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house, that you squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 9  

Maria: Go shake your ears.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 9  

Malvolio: [reads]  ...but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 5, pg. 13  

Clown: A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side mat be turned outward!

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 14  

Clown: and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 14  

Olivia: O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

If one should be a prey, how much the better to fall before the lion than the wolf!
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, pg. 15  

Sebastian: If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 1, pg. 22  

Sebastian: I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman; but had it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less with with and safety.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26  

Orsino Duke of Illyria: One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, a natural perspective, that is and is not.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26  

Antonio: How have you made division of yourself? An apple cleft in two, is not more twin than these two creatures.

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night or What You Will, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, pg. 26  

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - The Merry Wives of Windsor

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Merry Wives of Windsor

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Shallow: Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog; can there be more said? He is good and fair.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 1, p. 74  

Mistress Quickly: The young man is an honest man.

Doctor Caius: What shall be honest man do in my closet? Dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 78  

Mistress Quickly: Truly an honest gentleman; but Anne lives him not; for I know Anne's mind as well as another does.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 79  

Shallow: I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so wide of his own respect.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 86  

Host of the Garter Inn: Shall I lose my doctor? No; he gives me potions and the motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir Hugh? No; he gives me the proverbs and the no-verbs.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 86  

 Quickly: A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 4, p. 91  

Host of the Garter Inn: They are gone but to meet the Duke, villian. Do not say they be fled; Germans are honest men.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 5, p. 98  

John Falstaff: That same knave Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 99  

 John Falstaff: I'll tell you strange things of this knave Ford, on whom tonight I will be revenged, and I will deliver his wife into your hand.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 99  

Mrs. Page: But 'tis no matter, better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-ache.

William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 3, p. 100  

Ford: In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.
William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 3, p. 102   

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - Hamlet

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

QUOTES FOR DISCUSSION

Polonius: He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition, and at last upon his will I seal'd my hard concentration: I do beseech you, give him leave to go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Queen: Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for that noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

King: but you must know, your father lost a father: that father, lost, lost his.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Laertes: but you must fear, his greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself; for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state;

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 34  

Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Polonius: To thing own self be true.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Ophelia: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me.

Polonius: affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Hamlet: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,

Be the intents wicked or charitable?

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 36  

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

Polonius: He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave by laboursome petition, and at last upon his will I seal'd my hard concentration: I do beseech you, give him leave to go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Queen: Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for that noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

King: but you must know, your father lost a father: that father, lost, lost his.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 2, p. 32  

Laertes: but you must fear, his greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; for he himself is subject to his birth. He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself; for on his choice depends the safety and health of this whole state;
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 34  

Polonius: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Polonius: To thing own self be true.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Ophelia: He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me.

Polonius: affection! Pooh! You speak like a green girl

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 3, p. 35  

Hamlet: Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,

Be the intents wicked or charitable?
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 1, Scene 4, p. 36  

Polonius: [Reads.] Doubt thou the stars are fire;

Doubt that the sun doth move;

Doubt truth to be a liar;

But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 2, p. 41  

Rosencrantz: for they say an old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 2, Scene 2, p. 44  

Ophelia: Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

Hamlet: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 48  

King Claudius: Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 1, p. 48  

Queen: Alas, how is't with you, that you bend your eye on vacancy

And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 3, Scene 4, p. 55  

Horatio: [Reads.] Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship; so I alone became their prisoner.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 4, Scene 6, p. 62  

1st Clown: what is he that builds stronger than either the Mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?

2nd Clown: The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tentents.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 1, p. 65  

Horatio: You will lose this wager, my lord.

Hamlet: I do not think so; since he went into France, I have been in continual practice; I shall win at the odds.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 2, p. 70  

Horatio: Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince; and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, GB Vol. 27 Shakespeare II, Act 5, Scene 2, p. 71