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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

--Henry VI, part 2, Act IV, Scene II

No explanation needed.

"Doubt thou the stars are fire,

Doubt thou the earth doth move,

Doubt truth to be a liar,

But never doubt I love."

- from Hamlet (Polonius says it, but he is quoting a letter Hamlet wrote) Hamlet is basically telling Ophelia that she is free to question the natural order of things, but to not question his love for her.

"How stand I then,

that have a father killed, a mother stained,

excitements of my reason and my blood

and let all sleep, while to my shame I see

the imminent death of twenty thousand men,

who, for a fantasy, a trick of fame,

go to their graves like beds? Fight for a plot

whereon the numbers cannot try the cause

that is not tomb enough or content

to hide the slain? O, from this time forth,

my thoughts be bloody, or nothing worth!"

-Hamlet

Hamlet is berating himself because he has legitimate reasons to seek revenge (the murder of his father, his mother's marriage to the murderer) but he does not, whereas Fortinbras has rallied an army to gain back a small country that his father, the king, lost. The army is basically marching towards certain death, for no real reason other than pride. Hamlet gathers his resolve to avenge his father.

"There is beggary in love that can be reckoned."

-Cleopatra

Basically, if you can quantify or put a price your love, it isn't real love.

There are so many good Shakespeare quotes. I find new ones everytime I read a play... These are just ones I could recall off the top of my head.

"Et tu Brute?"

In Julius Ceasar this is how Ceasar asks Brutus if he had any part in the conspiracy of his murder. These are his dying words.

In Romeo and Juliet there is a famous speech of Juliet. It is usually something that most high school students are made to memorize. This is the part that the female students memorize.

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father, and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.

’Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself though, not a Montague.

What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man. O! be some other name:

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet;

So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,

Retain that dear perfection which he owes

Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;

And for that name, which is no part of thee,

Take all myself.

Juliet is offering herself to Romeo, and saying that if Romeo gives up his own name, he will have her love in return.

"We are such stuff as dreams are made of; and our little lives are rounded with a sleep." Prospero, The Tempest

Comparing life itself to a dream, appropriate within the magical context of The Tempest. Might also be interpreted as Prospero telling us that life is short

Charles' quote is incorrect:

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on,/

And our little life is rounded with a sleep."

This link will lead you to 269 quotes:

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_Shake...

a fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool

So wise so young, they say do never live long ...