To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep -- No more -- and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come (from "Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark" Act 3, Scene 1, 57-67)

Macbeth, Act IV, scene II My dearest coz, I pray you, school yourself: but, for your husband, He is noble wise, judicious, and best knows the fits o’ the season. I dare not speak much further: But cruel are the times, when we are traitors and do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour from what we fear, yet know not what we fear, but float upon a wild and violent sea each way and move. I take my leave of you: Shall not be long but I’ll be here again: Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. (From Macbeth, Act IV, scene ii)

Second Witch: Not so happy, yet much happier. (Macbeth, Act I, scene iii)

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (Macbeth, Act I, scene vii)

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. (Macbeth, Act II, scene iii)

Words, words, words. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad call I it; for, to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? But let that go. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)

Doubt that stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move, Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love. (Hamlet, Act II, scene ii)

And Phibbus' car Shall shine from far, And make and mar The foolish Fates. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, scene ii)

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Hamlet (Act II, scene iii)

I must be cruel only to be kind. Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. One word more, good lady. Hamlet (Act III, scene iv)

I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions... -- from Shakespeare's Hamlet