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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
- Good & Evil
It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Good & Evil
- 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
- Good & Evil
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
- Good & Evil
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
- Good & Evil
The prince of darkness is a gentleman
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene IV, spoken by EdgarIn context
- Good & Evil
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
- Good & Evil
- 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
- Good & Evil
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act I, Scene III, spoken by AntonioIn context
- Good & Evil
- Truth & Lies
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act V, Scene I, spoken by PortiaIn context
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
Anything that’s mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Twelfth Night (c. 1601), Act I, Scene V, spoken by ClownIn context
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene I, spoken by RichardIn context
- Good & Evil
- Love
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act I, Scene III, spoken by RichardIn context
- Good & Evil
- Religion
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act V, Scene III, spoken by King RichardIn context
Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Richard III (c. 1593), Act V, Scene III, spoken by King RichardIn context
- Courage
- Power