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I am a man,
More sinn’d against than sinning.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (1605–6), Act III, scene ii.In context
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (1600–1), Act II, scene ii.In context
- Thinking
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context
- Truth & Lies
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AllIn context
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.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by BanquoIn context
- Truth & Lies
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Justice
I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene I, spoken by Second WitchIn context
Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act V, Scene I, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
The prince of darkness is a gentleman
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by EdgarIn context
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by AntonyIn context
- Life & Death
Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by ArielIn context