"Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"I have an exposition of sleep come upon me."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was."

A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iv. Sc. 1.

"For never anything can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"The true beginning of our end."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"The best in this kind are but shadows."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve."

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act v. Sc. 1.

"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,-- A stage, where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way, with more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by adventuring both, I oft found both."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

"They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"He doth nothing but talk of his horse."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"God, made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"I dote on his very absence."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.

"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, With bated breath and whispering humbleness."

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"O Father Abram! what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!"

The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"The very staff of my age, my very prop."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"An honest exceeding poor man."

The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.