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LADY MACBETH
Macbeth · William Shakespeare
The raven himself is hoarse
EDMUND
King Lear · William Shakespeare
Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law
VIOLA
Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare
I left no ring with her; what means this lady?
CONSTANCE
King John · William Shakespeare
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
HELENA
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
How happy some o'er other some can be!
JAQUES
As You Like It · William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
ALGERNON
The Importance of Being Earnest · Oscar Wilde
Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury.
NORA
A Doll's House · Henrik Ibsen
I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child. And the children, in their turn, have been my dolls.
NINA
The Seagull · Anton Chekhov
I am a seagull... No, that's not it. I am an actress.
EMILIA
Othello · William Shakespeare
But I do think it is their husbands' faults
ROSALIND
As You Like It · William Shakespeare
It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue.
PROSPERO
The Tempest · William Shakespeare
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
PUCK
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
If we shadows have offended,
SHYLOCK
The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare
Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
PORTIA
The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare
The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
HELENA
A Midsummer Night's Dream · William Shakespeare
And even for that do I love you the more.
HAMLET
Hamlet · William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
RICHARD
Richard III · William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent
ANTONY
Julius Caesar · William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
JULIET
Romeo and Juliet · William Shakespeare
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
FAUSTUS
Doctor Faustus · Christopher Marlowe
Ah, Faustus,
GWENDOLEN
The Importance of Being Earnest · Oscar Wilde
We live, as I hope you know, Mr. Worthing, in an age of ideals. The fact is constantly mentioned in the more expensive monthly magazines, and has reached the provincial pulpits, I am told.
LEAR
King Lear · William Shakespeare
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
IAGO
Othello · William Shakespeare
Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;
VIOLA
Twelfth Night · William Shakespeare
My father had a daughter loved a man,
THE BASTARD
King John · William Shakespeare
Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!
ARKADINA
The Seagull · Anton Chekhov
But I keep myself in hand, as the saying is, and always dress and have my hair done comme il faut. Do I ever permit myself to go out even into the garden in a dressing-gown, or without my hair being done?
MOROCCO
The Merchant of Venice · William Shakespeare
This first, of gold, who this inscription bears,
TRINCULO
The Tempest · William Shakespeare
Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.
HAMLET
Hamlet · William Shakespeare
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it.