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Shakespeare Quotes – from MyVocabulary.com Shakespeare content feature.
All 4 words are from famous quotes in the play, Hamlet. Capital letters are words in the Shakespeare vocabulary puzzles at MyVocabulary.com.

• “Haste me to know t, that I, with wings as swift/ as meditation or the thoughts of love,/ may sweep to me REVENGE…”
• “The play is the thing wherein I will catch the CONSCIENCE of the king.”
• “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of INFINITE jest, of most excellent fancy…”
• “To be or not to be: That is the question. Whether tis nobler of mind to suffer the slings and arrows of OUTRAGEOUS fortune…”

Other memorable quotes from Hamlet:

• “What a piece of work man is! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!”
• “Something s rotten in state of Denmark.”
• “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
• “This above all; to thine own s self be true.”
• “Frailty, thy name is Woman!”
• “To die: to sleep: To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there s the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come?…”
• “Now get you to my lady s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.”
• “Neither a borrower nor a lender be/…”
• “Get thee to a nunnery, go!”
• “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
• “The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!”

Famous quotes from Shakespeare s other plays:

• “He was my friend, faithful, and just to me; But Brutus says, he was AMBITIOUS, and Brutus is an honorable man…” – Julius Caesar
• “O Swear not by the moon, the INCONSTANT moon,/That monthly changes in her circled orb,/Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.” – Romeo & Juliet
• “Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and CAULDRON bubble…” – Macbeth
• “The lunatic, lover and poet/ Are of IMAGINATION all compact:…” – A Midsummer Night s Dream
• “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name…” – Romeo and Juliet
• “All the world s a stage, And all the men and women merely players…”
  – As You Like It
• “Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win/ By fearing to attempt…” – Measure For Measure
• “…by the clock, tis day,/And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp…” – Macbeth
• “Out, out brief candle! Life s but a walking shadow, a poor player/ That struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more: it is tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.” – Macbeth
• “What s in a name?… A rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo and Juliet
• “Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,/That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – Romeo and Juliet
• “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – Midsummer s Night Dream
• “I ll not budge an inch.” …”And thereby hangs a tale.” – The Taming of the Shrew

A major theme or technique used in Shakespeare s works is the “soliloquy” which is the “character-stands-alone” technique. Three of the most famous soliloquies are:

• “Refrain tonight,/And that shall lend a king of easiness/To the next ABSTINENCE; the next more easy…” – Hamlet
• “The quality of MERCY is not strain d, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath: It is twice bless d…” – The Merchant of Venice
• “The native hue of RESOLUTION/Is sicklied o er with the pale cast of thought…” – Hamlet

Visit all five Myvocabulary.com interactive vocabulary puzzles celebrating William Shakespeare throughout the year. Remember him particularly in the month of April: April 23rd was the day that “The Bard” was born AND died.