1590s

Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 7.2

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 7.1

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 7.0

I am not in the roll of common men.

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 7.0

There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 7.0

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 6.4

Poem · Narrative poem

Venus and Adonis · 1593

★ 6.3

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

The Taming of the Shrew · 1594

★ 6.1

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.

1597

★ 5.6

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.6

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

Love's Labour's Lost · 1597

★ 5.5

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.

1597

★ 5.5

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 5.5

His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 5.5

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 interrèd with their bones.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.5

Poem · Narrative poem

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 5.5

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 5.5

Poem

Christopher Marlowe

Hero and Leander · 1593

★ 5.3

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 5.3

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.3

You and I are past our dancing days.

1597

★ 5.2

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

1595

★ 4.9

Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!

1597

★ 4.8

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

1595

★ 4.7

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

1597

★ 4.7

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

The Merchant of Venice · 1598

★ 4.7

Talkers are no good doers. Be assured We go to use our hands and not our tongues.

He takes false shadows for true substances.

1597

★ 4.6

Play · Tragedy (play)

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.

Titus Andronicus · 1594

★ 4.5

Poem · Epic poem

Edmund Spenser

1590

★ 4.4

Play · Tragedy (play)

My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.

Titus Andronicus · 1594

★ 4.0

While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 4.0

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

1597

★ 4.0

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 4.0

I am not in the giving vein today.

1597

★ 3.9

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And, where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruisèd youth with unstuffed brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.

1597

★ 3.9

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Henry VI, Part 1 · 1592

★ 3.8

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

The Taming of the Shrew · 1594

★ 3.8

My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen. My crown is called content; A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 3.8

O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer’s heat?