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The plays of William Shakespeare
Dramatic speeches kept with their plays, speakers, acts and scenes rather than treated as the author’s direct advice.
By William Shakespeare · Read the edition used for verification
12 published source-checked quotations
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✓ Source verified“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 · View source
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✓ Source verified“Sweet are the uses of adversity.”
William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 · View source
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✓ Source verified“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.”
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As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source
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✓ Source verified“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
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As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 · View source
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✓ Source verified“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source
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✓ Source verified“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
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The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1 · View source
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✓ Source verified“Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”
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Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source
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✓ Source verified“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 · View source
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✓ Source verified“The quality of mercy is not strained.”
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The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1 · View source
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✓ Source verified“Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.”
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Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source
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✓ Source verified“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
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The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 · View source
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✓ Source verified“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”
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The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1 · View source
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