| Quotation | Speaker | Speaking to |
| 'Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.' | |
| 'I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.' | |
| 'I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.' | |
| 'The course of true love never did run smooth.' | |
| 'Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.' | |
| 'Not a mouse shall disturb this hallow'd house: I am sent with broom before, to sweep the dust behind door.' | |
| 'O hell! to choose love with another's eye.' | |
| 'To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, and plant this thorn, this canker Bolingbroke?' | |
| 'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.' | |
| 'Since once I sat upon a promontory, and I heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, that the rude sea grew civil at her song' | |
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| 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!' | |
| 'Why, so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?' | |
| 'I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine' | |
| 'The better part of valor is descretion.' | |
| 'I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.' | |
| 'Greatness knows itself.' | |
| 'But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, than that which withering on the virgin thorn grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.' | |
| 'Bless thee Bottom, bless thee! Thou are translated!' | |
| 'O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!' | |
| 'I know you all, and will uphold the unyok'd humor of your idleness.' | |
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