"This was the most unkindest cut of all."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Great Cæsar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"What private griefs they have, alas, I know not."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"I only speak right on."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"Put a tongue In every wound of Cæsar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny."

Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

"When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 2.

"You yourself Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"The foremost man of all this world."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say "better"?"

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts: Dash him to pieces!"

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"We must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"The deep of night is crept upon our talk, And nature must obey necessity."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"Brutus. Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then."

Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3.

"But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, And leave them honeyless."

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.

"Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made."

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.

"O, that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!"

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1.

"The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!"

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 3.

"This was the noblest Roman of them all."

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 5.

"His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, "This was a man!""

Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 5.

"2 W. When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1.

"Banners flout the sky."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 2.

"Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Dwindle, peak, and pine."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on 't?"

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Stands not within the prospect of belief."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"The earth hath bubbles as the water has, And these are of them."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"The insane root That takes the reason prisoner."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's In deepest consequence."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature. Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Nothing is But what is not."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.

"Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 't were a careless trifle."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

"There 's no art To find the mind's construction in the face."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

"More is thy due than more than all can pay."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4.

"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

"What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

"That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

"Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5.

"This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses."

Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 6.