| A | B |
|---|
| Hamlet | 'To be or not to be: that is the question' |
| Claudius | 'The harlot's cheek' |
| Gertrude | 'The lady doth protest too much' |
| Polonius | 'This above all: to thine own self be true' |
| Horatio | 'I am more an antique Roman than a Dane' |
| Fortinbras | 'This quarry cries on havoc' |
| Julius Cæsar | 'Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caesar' |
| Marc Antony | 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' |
| The Weïrd Sisters (3 Witches) | 'Double, double, toil and trouble' |
| Macduff | 'Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd' |
| Macbeth | 'Is this a dagger I see before me?' |
| Lady Macbeth | 'Out, damned spot' |
| Shylock | 'Hath not a Jew eyes?' |
| Portia (from The Merchant of Venice) | 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd' |
| Ophelia | 'Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind' |
| Laertes | 'I dare damnation' |
| Othello | 'I took, by the throat, the circumcis'd dog, and smote him--thus' |
| Iago | 'I bleed sir, but not killed' |
| King Lear | 'Nothing will come of nothing' |
| King Henry V (in King Henry V) | 'Once more into the breach' |
| Richard Gloucester (as Richard III) | 'A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse' |
| Chorus ( from King Henry V) | 'A little touch of Harry in the night' |
| Sir John Falstaff | 'Do not, when thou art king, hang a thief' |
| King Henry V (in King Henry IV) | 'I know thee not, old man' |
| York | 'O tiger's heart wrapp'd in a woman's hide' |
| Puck | 'Lord what fools these mortals be' |
| Oberon | 'Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania' |
| Seyton | 'The queen, my lord, is dead' |
| Player Queen (in Hamlet) | 'None wed the second but who killed the first' |
| Ghost of Hamlet's Father | 'The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown' |
| Isabella | 'O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant' |
| Aaron | 'If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul' |
| Dogberry | 'I am an ass' |
| Prince of Morocco | 'Mislike me not for my complexion' |
| Petruchio | 'To me she's married, not unto my clothes' |
| Kate (The Taming of the Shrew) | 'Fie fie, unknit that threat'ning, unkind brow' |
| Grumio | 'Will he woo her? Ay, or I'll hang her' |
| Gremio | 'My cake is dough' |
| Lucentio | 'I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio' |
| Romeo | 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?' |
| Juliet | 'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?' |
| Mercutio | 'A plague on both your houses' |
| Tybalt | 'To strike him dead I hold it not a sin' |
| Chorus (from Romeo and Juliet) | 'Two households, both alike in dignity' |
| Prince Escalus | 'Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace' |
| Cassius | 'Men at some time are masters of their fates' |
| Soothsayer (in Julius Cæsar) | 'Beware the Ides of March' |
| Miranda | 'O brave new world, that has such people in't' |
| Jaques | 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players' |
| Silvius | 'O Phebe Phebe Phebe' |
| Touchstone | 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool' |
| Claudio | 'Silence is the perfectest herald of joy' |
| Benedick | 'Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher' |
| Beatrice | 'A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours' |
| Helena (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) | 'You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant' |
| Arthur | 'Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones' |
| Apothecary | 'My poverty, but not my will, consents' |
| Friar Laurence | 'For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give' |
| Nurse to Juliet | 'thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; wilt thou not, Jule?' |
| Don John | 'I am a plain-dealing villain' |
| Marcellus | 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' |
| Cassio | 'Dear general, I never gave you cause' |
| Desdemona | 'A guiltless death I die' |
| Emilia | 'This deed of thine was no more worthy Heaven than thou wast worthy her' |
| Brabantio | 'Look to her Moor if thou hast eyes to see; she has deceived her father and may thee' |
| Duncan | 'What bloody man is that?' |
| Calphurnia | 'When beggars die there are no comets seen; the Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes' |
| Fairy | 'And I serve the fairy queen to dew her orbs upon the green' |
| Prospero | 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' |
| Rosencrantz | 'Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow' |
| Richard Gloucester (as Duke) | 'Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York' |
| Jupiter (in Cymbeline) | 'Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift the more delay'd, delighted' |
| Duchess of York | 'Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?' |
| Sonnet I | 'From fairest creatures we desire increase' |
| Sonnet CLI | 'Love is too young to know what conscience is' |
| Sonnet XVIII | 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' |
| Letter to Ophelia from Hamlet | 'Thine evermore, dear lady, whilst this machine is to him Hamlet' |
| Sonnet CXXXVIII | 'When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies' |
| The Passionate Pilgrim | 'Live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove' |
| Conspirators (in Coriolanus) | 'Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!' |
| Coriolanus | 'Friends now fast sworn whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart' |
| Aufidius | 'Dost thou think I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name Coriolanus in Corioli?' |
| Goneril | 'A love that makes breath poor and speech unable' |
| Cordelia | 'What shall Cordelia do? Love and be silent' |
| Imogen | 'The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?' |
| Guiderius | 'Golden lads and girls all must as chimney-sweepers come to dust' |
| Posthumus | 'Most welcome, bondage! For thou art a way, I think, to liberty' |
| Queen Elizabeth | 'Pitchers have ears' |
| Fool (in King Lear) | 'May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse?' |
| Edmund | 'We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars |
