1599

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

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 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

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

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 4.0

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

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

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 3.6

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

Henry V · 1599

★ 3.6

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 3.1

The course of true love never did run smooth.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 3.0

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eyes, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 3.0

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

Henry V · 1599

★ 3.0

But for mine own part, it was Greek to me.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 2.9

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world “This was a man.”

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 2.3

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men’s blood. I only speak right on.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 2.3

I am slow of study.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 2.2

Lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But, when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 2.2

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

Henry V · 1599

★ 2.1

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.

There shall be no love lost.

Henry V · 1599

★ 2.1

Play · Comedy (play) · Satire · Comedy

Ben Jonson

Every Man out of His Humour · 1599

★ 2.0

Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 2.0

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead!

Henry V · 1599

★ 1.9

Et tu, Brutè?

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.9

Beware the ides of March.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.9

Play

Thomas Dekker

Old Fortunatus · 1599

★ 1.9

The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Henry V · 1599

★ 1.9

Poem

Sir John Davies

Of Human Knowledge · 1599

★ 1.8

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity.

But times do change and move continually.

A Midsummer Night's Dream · 1599

★ 1.3

Poem

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens · 1599

★ 1.2

How hard it is for women to keep counsel!

Julius Caesar · 1599

★ 1.2

So every bondman in his own hand bears The power to cancel his captivity.