“Men at some time are masters of their fates: Cassius, priming Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar. “Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once.”Ĩ. Caesar, to his wife, brushing aside her fear that he will soon die, which he does. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,ħ. Hamlet explaining to Horatio the appearance of a ghost. Under thy own life’s key: be cheque’d for silence,Ħ. Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend ( All’s Well That Ends Well)ĭo wrong to none: be able for thine enemy The Countess dispensing some motherly wisdom to Bertram before he departs for France. “Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.”ĥ. Lafeu, consoling the Countess on the death of her husband and departure of her son.

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Ĥ. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player Macbeth, upon learning of the queen’s death. Thou canst not then be false to any man.”ģ. “This above all: to thine own self be true,Īnd it must follow, as the night the day, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,Īnd by opposing end them. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Hamlet contemplating suicide in his famous soliloquy. Here are the 15 most highlighted Shakespeare quotes.ġ. Kennedy’s tribute to his slain brother at the 1964 Democratic convention: “Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night / And pay no worship to the garish sun.” The quotations are almost evenly split between comedies and tragedies, though several famous passages weren’t chosen by the highlighters: Nowhere was Shylock’s “If you prick us do we not bleed?” from Merchant of Venice or Juliet’s eulogy to Romeo, made especially famous by Robert F.

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