Sourced and curated.

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.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 6.4

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

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.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.5

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 5.5

Press not a falling man too far!

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 5.4

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

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 5.3

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

1595

★ 4.9

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

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

1597

★ 4.6

While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!

Henry IV, Part 1 · 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

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 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

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?

1595

★ 3.8

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

1595

★ 3.8

I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 3.8

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

Henry IV, Part 2 · 1597

★ 3.8

For so work the honeybees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom. They have a king and officers of sorts, Where some like magistrates correct at home, Others like merchants venture trade abroad, Others like soldiers armèd in their stings Make boot upon the summer’s velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent royal of their emperor, Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold.

Henry V · 1599

★ 3.8

He is the half part of a blessèd man, Left to be finishèd by such as she, And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.8

The better part of valor is discretion.

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 3.7

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

Henry V · 1599

★ 3.7

When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforcèd ceremony.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 3.7

For courage mounteth with occasion.

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.7

Virtue is choked with foul ambition.

Henry VI, Part 2 · 1594

★ 3.6

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 3.6

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe

1595

★ 3.6

You tread upon my patience.

Henry IV, Part 1 · 1597

★ 3.6

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Henry V · 1599

★ 3.6

Tis well said again, And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well. And yet words are no deeds.

Henry VIII · 1613

★ 3.6

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!

The Life and Death of King John · 1616

★ 3.6

Trust not him that hath once broken faith.

Henry VI, Part 3 · 1595

★ 3.5

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

1595

★ 3.5

Do not cast away an honest man for a villain’s accusation!