Quotation From Drama/Poetry of Different Ages
Quotation From Drama/Poetry
| Quote | Taken From |
| “Brevity is the soul of wit” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “To be or not to be,
that is the question” |
Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “Frailty, thy name is woman!” | Hamlet (Shakespeare) |
| “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players ” | As you like it (Shakespeare) |
| “Sweet are uses of adversity” | As you like it (Shakespeare) |
| “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool” | As you like it (Shakespeare) |
| “Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?” | As you like it (Shakespeare) |
| “Cowards die many times before their deaths” | Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) |
| “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more” | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “Fair is foul,
and Foul is fair” |
Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day” | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day” | Macbeth (Shakespeare) |
| “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “Nothing will come of nothing.” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “My love’s more richer than my tongue.” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “The younger rises when the old doth fall.” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “Reason in madness!” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.” | King Lear (Shakespeare) |
| “The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.” | Measure for Measure (Shakespeare) |
| “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” | Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) |
| “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink ” | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (S.T Coleridge) |
| “Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass” | The Solitary Reaper (William Wordsworth) |
| “The child is the father of a man” | My Heart Leaps Up” (William Wordsworth) |
| “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” | Ode to the West Wind (Percy Bysshe Shelley) |
| “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought” | To a Skylark (Percy Bysshe Shelley) |
| “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” | The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) |
| “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.” | A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) |
| “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” | Love Story (Erich Segal) |
| “What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.” | The Lady’s Not For Burning (Christopher Fry) |
| Oh! Lift me as a wave,
a leaf, a cloud! I fail upon the thorns of life! I bleed ” |
Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever” | Endymion (John Keats) |
| “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” | Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats) |
| “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man” | The essays of Sir F. Bacon |
| “Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven” | Paradise Lost (John Milton) |
