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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
Title: As You Like It. Main Characters: Rosalind, Orlando, Jaques.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Main Characters: Lysander, Hermia, Puck.
I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.
Title: Much Ado About Nothing. Main Characters: Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio.
I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Title: The Merchant of Venice. Main Characters: Shylock, Portia, Bassanio.
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Main Characters: Lysander, Hermia, Puck.
The better part of valour is discretion.
Title: Henry IV, Part 1 (though classified as history, it has comedic elements). Main Characters: Prince Hal, Falstaff, Hotspur.
O, brave new world that has such people in't!
Title: The Tempest. Main Characters: Prospero, Miranda, Caliban.
I do desire we may be better strangers.
Title: As You Like It. Main Characters: Rosalind, Orlando, Jaques.
I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Title: The Merchant of Venice. Main Characters: Shylock, Portia, Bassanio.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
Title: All's Well That Ends Well. Main Characters: Helena, Bertram, King of France.
Lord, what fools these mortals be!
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Main Characters: Lysander, Hermia, Puck.
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.
Title: Measure for Measure. Main Characters: Isabella, Angelo, Duke Vincentio.
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
Title: Much Ado About Nothing. Main Characters: Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream. Main Characters: Lysander, Hermia, Puck.
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
Title: King Lear (while primarily a tragedy, this quote provides a moment of comedic relief). Main Characters: King Lear, Cordelia, The Fool.
Then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Main Characters: Falstaff, Mistress Ford, Mistress Page.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Title: Twelfth Night. Main Characters: Viola, Orsino, Olivia.
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes that show, contain, and nourish all the world.
Title: Love's Labour's Lost. Main Characters: Ferdinand, Biron, Rosaline.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Title: Much Ado About Nothing. Main Characters: Beatrice, Benedick, Claudio.
You must not wonder, though you think it strange, to see me hold acquaintance with the night.
Title: The Merchant of Venice. Main Characters: Shylock, Portia, Bassanio.
You have witchcraft in your lips.
Title: Henry IV, Part 2 (also classed as a historical play with comedic elements). Main Characters: Prince Hal, Falstaff, King Henry IV.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Title: Hamlet (although primarily a tragedy, this play has comedic elements). Main Characters: Hamlet, Polonius, Ophelia.
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
Title: Measure for Measure. Main Characters: Isabella, Angelo, Duke Vincentio.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
Title: The Merchant of Venice (classified as a comedy, but modern perspectives often view it as more complex). Main Characters: Shylock, Portia, Bassanio.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Title: Twelfth Night. Main Characters: Viola, Orsino, Olivia.
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