"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted."

Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air."

Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3.

"His heart and hand both open and both free; For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty."

Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."

Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."

Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't."

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"I thank you for your voices: thank you: Your most sweet voices."

Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.

"Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute "shall"?"

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"Enough, with over-measure."

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder."

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

"That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war."

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Cor. Under the canopy."

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine."

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

"Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple."

Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3.

"If you have writ your annals true, 't is there That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it. Boy!"

Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 6.

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

Titus Andronicus. Act i. Sc. 2.

"She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive."

Titus Andronicus. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"The eagle suffers little birds to sing."

Titus Andronicus. Act iv. Sc. 4.

"The weakest goes to the wall."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Gregory, remember thy swashing blow."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"An hour before the worshipp'd sun Peered forth the golden window of the east."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"As is the bud bit with an envious worm Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

"One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 2.

"That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in gold clasps locks in the golden story."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 3.

"For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes, And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4.

"For you and I are past our dancing days."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Shall have the chinks."

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"

Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!"

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 1.

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound. But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"What 's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"For stony limits cannot hold love out."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Jul. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"The god of my idolatry."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say, "It lightens.""

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!"

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.