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These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act II, Scene VI, spoken by Friar LawrenceIn context
Come gentle night, come loving black-brow’d night,
Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act III, Scene II, spoken by JulietIn context
Eyes, look your last.
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act V, Scene III, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Life & Death
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act V, Scene III, spoken by PrinceIn context
Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty
According to my bond; no more nor less.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by CordeliaIn context
- Family
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act III, Scene III, spoken by OthelloIn context
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey’d monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act III, Scene III, spoken by IagoIn context
- Envy
Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this,
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Othello (c. 1604), Act V, Scene II, spoken by OthelloIn context
- Life & Death
O hell! to choose love by another’s eyes!
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by HermiaIn context
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night
That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
And, ere a man hath power to say, ‘Behold!’
The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
So quick bright things come to confusion.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act I, Scene I, spoken by LysanderIn context
- Time
We cannot fight for love as men may do.
We should be woo’d, and were not made to woo.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by HelenaIn context
- Women
Cupid is a knavish lad
Thus to make poor females mad.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act III, Scene II, spoken by PuckIn context
- Comedy
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by TheseusIn context
- Thinking
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
It is engend’red in the eyes,
With gazing fed, and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act III, Scene II, spoken by PortiaIn context