We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Hamlet
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
All's Well That Ends Well
And one man in his time plays many parts,
As You Like It
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As You Like It
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
As You Like It
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
Love is blind.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Neither rhyme nor reason
As You Like It
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
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be ... soliloquy)
Hamlet
Words, words, words
Hamlet
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with
their bones.
Julius Caesar
To be wise and love, Exceeds man's might
Troilus & Cressida
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say 'I love you'
Henry V
Something wicked this way comes.
Macbeth
Resources:
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations From Shakespeare,
Selected by Mary and Reginald Foakes
Communications could also come from a party game.
E.g.,
Participants enter one to three items. Each is from Shakespeare's work,
and described by two or more keywords.
Recorded entries are rated by participants, one
to three (one best),
and "winner" has lowest average score.
Other Masters
G. B. Shaw
Miguel Cervantes
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