The Bard Speaks...
"If it's a good quote, chances are it's either from Shakespeare or the Bible."
--Mr. Scott Holley
“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.” --‘Othello’ 1 ii
“If you be not mad, be gone. If you have logic, be brief.” --‘Twelfth Night’ 2 v
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
--‘Twelfth Night’ 2 v“Give me that man who is not passion’s slave and I will wear him in my heart’s core. Ay, in my heart of hearts.” --‘Hamlet’ 3 ii
“Give every man thy ear but few thy voice.”
--‘Hamlet’ 1 iii“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
--‘Hamlet’ 1 iii“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
--‘Hamlet’ 1 v“Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt that I love. Oh, my dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not the art to reckon my groans. But that I love thee best, oh most best, believe it.”
--‘Hamlet’ 2 ii“If we shadows have offended, think but this and all is mended: that you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, no more yielding than a dream…”
--‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 5 I“Men at some times are masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves—that we are underlings.”
--‘Julius Caesar’ 1 ii“Out, out brief candle. Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
–Macbeth“I am not what I am.” --Othello
"There lies more peril in thine eye than twenty swords." –Romeo and Juliet
"O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes her circled orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable...Swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idolatry."
–Romeo and Juliet"But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true than those who have more coying to be strange."
--Romeo and Juliet"I wish but for the thing that I have. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."
--Romeo and Juliet