| Opening Line | Play | Character |
|---|
| 'Boatswain!' | |
| 'Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly / That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse / As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.' | |
| 'When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?' | |
| 'Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?' | |
| 'I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.' | |
| 'I'll pheeze you, in faith.' | |
| 'Escalus' | |
| 'In sooth I know not why I am so sad' | |
| 'I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina.' | |
| 'Now is the winter of our discontent...' | |
| 'Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a star- chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.' | |
| 'Two households, both alike in dignity, / In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, / From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.' | |
| 'Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home' | |
| 'Who's there?' | |
| 'So shaken as we are, so wan with care, / Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, / And breathe short-winded accents of new broils / To be commenced in strands afar remote.' | |
| 'Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour / Draws on apace' | |
| 'Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, / Live register'd upon our brazen tombs / And then grace us in the disgrace of death' | |
| 'In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband' | |
| 'Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall / And by the doom of death end woes and all. | |
| 'If music be the food of love, play on' | |
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