SHAKESPEARE'S PHRASES V

FAMOUS SHAKESPEAREAN LINES

1. Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. 

Twelfth Night 

 

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

    Troilus and Cressida

 

3. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

    All's Well That Ends Well

 

4. The better part of valor is discretion. 

    (Regularly misquoted as "Discretion is the better part of valor.")

    Henry IV Part I

  

5. Glendower: I can call spirits from the deep.

    Hotspur:      Why, so can I, or so

                         can any man;

                         But will they come,

                         When you do call for them?

                          Henry IV Part I

 

6. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

    Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

    To the last syllable of recorded time.

    And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

    The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!

    Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

    Who struts and frets his hour upon the stage

    And then is heard no more. 

    It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

    Signifying nothing.

    Macbeth