Quote-o-rama:
Shakespeare

Again, this page could include like everything he wrote, I am just fishing on highlights here and there.

"I hate the word as I hate hell."
					_Romeo and Juliet_

"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!"
                                        _Hamlet_

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his
 blood with me shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, this day shall
 gentle his condition."
                                        _Henry V_

"You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense."   
                                        _The Tempest_

"One sees more devils than vast hell can hold."
                                        _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ 

"There's no true drop of blood in him."
                                        _Much Ado About Nothing_

"O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place."
                                        _Much Ado About Nothing_

"There was never yet philosopher that could endure a toothache patiently,
 however they have writ the style of gods."
                                        _Much Ado About Nothing_
                                        
"I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia...
 rather than hold three words' conference with this harpy."
                                        _Much Ado About Nothing_
                                        
"[Your bad parts] maintained so politic a state of evil that they will not
 admit any good part to intermingle with them."
                                        _Much Ado About Nothing_

"She was false as water."
                                        _Othello_

"We would purge the land of these drones, that rob the bee of her honey."
                                        _Pericles_

"I do defy him, and I spit at him, call him a slanderous coward, and a
 villain."
                                        _Richard III_

"God grant we never may have need of you."
                                        _Richard III_

"Take with thee my most grievous curse."
                                        _Richard III_

"His kisses are Judas's own children."
                                        _As You Like It_

"I will bite thee by the ear for that jest."
                                        _Romeo and Juliet_

"Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes."
                                        _Romeo and Juliet_

"Thy noble shape is but a form of wax digressing from the valour of a
 man."
                                        _Romeo and Juliet_

"...a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
                                        _King Lear_

"Such an injury would vex a saint, much more a shrew of thy impatient
 humour."
                                        _The Taming of the Shrew_

"There's nothing in our cursed natures but direct villainy."
                                        _Timon of Athens_

"You undergo too strict a paradox, striving to make an ugly deed look
 fair."
                                        _Timon of Athens_

"Grant I may never prove so fond, to trust man on his oath or bond."
                                        _Timon of Athens_

"[Here's] a kind of excellent dumb disclosure."
                                        _The Tempest_

"These gentleman are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always
 use to laugh at nothing."
                                        _The Tempest_

"You taught me language; and my profit on 't is, I know how to curse. The
 red plague rid you for learning me your language!"
                                        _The Tempest_

"A plague on thee, thou art too bad to curse."
                                        _Timon of Athens_

"Go, suck the subtle blood o' th' grape, till the high fever seethe your
 blood to froth."
                                        _Timon of Athens_

"Vengence rot you all!"
                                        _Titus Andronicus_

"This petty brabble will undo us all."
                                        _Titus Andronicus_

"The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great
 revenue."
                                        _Troilus and Cressida_

"Thou crusty botch of nature!"
					_Troilus and Cressida_

"Thou damnable box of envy, thou."
					_Troilus and Cressida_

"I will no more trust him when he leers than I will a serpent when he
 hisses."
					_Troilus and Cressida_

"Nothing but lechery: all incontinent varlets!"
					_Troilus and Cressida_

"How have you come so early by this lethargy!"
					_Twelfth Night_

"You, minion, are too saucy."
					_Two Gentlemen of Verona_

"What strange ruins may we perceive walking [here]?"
					_Two Noble Kinsmen_

"Abandoner of revels, mute contemplative."
					_Two Noble Kinsmen_

"[You are] a feather for each wind that blows."
					_Winter's Tale_

"Thou art too base to be acknowledged."
					_Winter's Tale_

"We honour you with trouble."
					_Winter's Tale_

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."
					_A Midsummer Night's Dream_

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