- «To be, or not to be: that is the question.»
- «There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.»
- «The lady doth protest too much, methinks.»
- «Brevity is the soul of wit.»
- «This above all: to thine own self be true.»
- «Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.»
- «The play ‘s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.»
- «There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.»
- «When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.»
- «What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!».
- «The rest is silence.»
- «I must be cruel, only to be kind.»
- «Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.»
- «There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember.»
- «The readiness is all.»
- «What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.»
- «There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.»
- «The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!».
- «I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.»
- «When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows.»
- «I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my mirth.»
- «There is no darkness but ignorance.»
- «The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.»
- «The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.»
- «The better part of valor is discretion.»
- «The first bringer of unwelcome news hath but a losing office.»
- «I am not what I am.»
- «The love of wickedness is the root of all evil.»
- «There is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.»
- «The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.»
- «The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.»
- «The worst is not, so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.'».
- «The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.»
- «The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.»
- «The earth has music for those who listen.»
- «The course of true love never did run smooth.»
- «The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.»
- «The game is up.»
- «The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us.»
- «The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.»
- «The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.»
- «The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.»
- «The worst is not so long as we can say, ‘This is the worst.'».