http://www.monologuesearch.com/authors/William_Shakespeare/rss This channel provides quotes from monologues by William Shakespeare added by the members of MonologueSearch.com. en-us http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1 "And what's he then that says I play the villain, When this advice is free I give, and honest, Probal to thinking, and indeed the course To win the Moor again? For ‘tis most easy Th' inclining Desdemona to subdue In any honest suit; she's fram'd as fruitful As the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2 "I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have serv'd him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/11 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/11 "Now might I do it pat, now 'a is a-praying; And now I'll do't - and so 'a goes to heaven, And so am I reveng'd. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. Why…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/12 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/12 "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…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/15 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/15 "Think not I love him, though I ask for him; 'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well. But what care I for words? Yet words do well When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. It is a pretty youth; not very pretty; But sure he's proud;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/16 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/16 "This can be no trick. The conference was sadly borne; they have the truth of this from Hero; they seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me? Why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured. They say I will bear…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/19 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/19 "O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment. If you were civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to mock…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/25 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/25 "I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confin'd to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/27 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/27 "I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune; I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen; The presentation of but what I was; The flattering index of a direful pageant; One heav'd a-high, to be hurl'd down below; A mother only mock'd with two fair babes; A dream of…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/32 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/32 "Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown. Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects; I am not Adriana, nor thy wife. The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow That never words were music to thine ear, That never object pleasing in thine eye, That never touch well welcome…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/33 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/33 "And may it be that you have quite forgot A husband's office? Shall, Antipholus, Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot? Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous? If you did wed my sister for her wealth, Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness: Or…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/34 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/34 "His company must do his minions grace, Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. Hath homely age th' alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it. Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, Unkindness blunts it more…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/53 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/53 "Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing: I hear it sing i' th' wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/56 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/56 "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/58 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/58 "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/59 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/59 "My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat and trimly dressed, Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reaped Showed…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/60 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/60 "Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blowsin our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/67 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/67 "How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge! What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/72 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/72 "Pray you, stand further from me. ... I know, by that same eye, there's some good news. What says the married woman? You may go: Would she had never given you leave to come! Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here: I have no power upon you;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/153 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/153 "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That suck'd…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/198 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/198 "Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love; And thou, thrice-crowned Queen of Night, survey With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above, Thy huntress'name that my full life doth sway. O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books, And in their barks my thoughts I'll character, That…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/199 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/199 "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. My next is, "Most fair Pyramus." Heigh-Ho! Peter Quince! Flute, the bellowsmender! Snout, the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/202 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/202 "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended - That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And, as I am…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/211 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/211 "I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And how can that be true love which is falsely attempted? Love…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/220 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/220 "All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirit hear me And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' the mire, Nor lead me, like a…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/311 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/311 "And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter. It were a shame to call her back again And pray her to a fault for which I chid her. What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid, And would not force the letter to my view! Since…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/313 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/313 "Sir,I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir; If idle talk will once be necessary, I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin, Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court; Nor once be chastised with the sober eye…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/320 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/320 "Thus have I politicly begun my reign, And 'tis my hope to end successfully. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, For then she never looks upon her lure. Another way I have to man my haggard, To make her…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/325 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/325 "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as live the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/327 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/327 "How happy some o're other some can be! Through Athens I am thought of as fair as she. But what of that? Demetirus thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his quailities…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/336 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/336 "Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven! Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man Is but a substance that must yield to you; And I, as fits my nature, do obey you. Alas, the sea hath cast me on th rocks, Wash'd me from shore to shore, and…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/366 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/366 "No! why? When he, that is my husband now Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse; When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands, Which issu'd from my other angel husband, And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd; O! when I say, I look'd on…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/384 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/384 "My mistress with a monster is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/445 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/445 "Why should I love this gentleman? 'Tis odds He will never affect me. I am base, My father the mean keeper of his prison, And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless, To be his whore is witless. Out upon't, What pushes are we wenches driven to When fifteen…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/453 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/453 "Can you not see? or will ye not observe The strangeness of his alter'd countenance? With what a majesty he bears himself, How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself? We know the time since he was mild and affable, And if we did…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/467 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/467 "I doubt not of your wisdom. Let each man render me his bloody hand: First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand; Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus; Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours; Though last, not last in love…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/470 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/470 "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,-- Which…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/492 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/492 "O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars! The time was, father, that you broke your word, When you were more endeared to it than now; When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry, Threw many a northward look to see his father Bring up his powers;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/519 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/519 "Alas, how love can trifle with itself! Here is her picture. Let me see - I think, If I had such a tire, this face of mine Were full as lovely as is this of hers; And yet the painter flattered her a little, Unless I flatter with myself too…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/534 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/534 "Set down, set down your honourable load, If honour may be shrouded in a hearse, Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Poor key-cold figure of a holy king! Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster! Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood! Be it lawful…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/561 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/561 "No shame but mine. I must, forsooth, be forced To give my hand opposed against my heart Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. I told you, I, he was a frantic fool, Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/571 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/571 "Fie, fie, unknit that threat'ning unkind brow And dart not scornful glances from those eyes To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor. It blots thy beauty as frost do bite the meads, Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet or amiable. A…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/618 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/618 "Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/647 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/647 "Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek girlish, color For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight. Fain would I dwell on form; fain, fain deny What I have spoke. But farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/651 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/651 "And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banished from myself. And Silvia is myself: banished from her Is self from self, a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/749 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/749 "Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/750 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/750 "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won? I'll have her; but I will not keep her long. What! I, that kill'd her husband, and his father, To take her in her heart's extremest hate; With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/820 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/820 "My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth, Of this their purpose hither, to this wood, And I in fury hither followed them, Fair Helena in fancy following me. But, my good lord, I wot not by what power- But by some power it is - my love to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/821 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/821 "His company must do his minions grace, Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. Hath homely age th' alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it. Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, Unkindness blunts it more…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/844 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/844 "NURSE: Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; She was too good for me. But, as I said, On Lammas Eve at…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/954 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/954 "The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed, it blesseth him that gives and him that takes. It is mightiest in the mightiest and becomes the throned monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/993 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/993 "What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me? What wheels? racks? fires? What flaying? or what boiling? In leads, or oils? what old or newer torture Must I receive, whose every word deserves To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny, Together working with thy jealousies, Fancies too weak for boys…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1072 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1072 "Call you me fair? that fair again unsay. Demetrius loves you fair: O happy fair! Your eyes are lode-stars! and your tongue's sweet air. More tuneable than lark to shepard's ear, When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. Sickness is catching: O! were favour so, Yours would i catch…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1154 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1154 "I left no ring with her; what means this lady? Fortune forbid my outside hath not charm'd her. She made good view of me; indeed, so much That, methought, her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts distractedly. She loves me sure; the cunning of her…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1210 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1210 "On the ground Sleep sound. I'll apply To your eye, Gentle lover,remedy. (Squeezing the juice on Lysander's eyes) When thou wak'st, Thou tak'st True delight In the sight Of thy former lady's eye; And the country proverb known, That every man should take his own, In your waking shall be…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1263 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1263 "O you beast! O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! 150 Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice? Is't not a kind of incest, to take life From thine own sister's shame? What should I think? Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair! For such a warped…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1303 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1303 "O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment: If you we re civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1379 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1379 "What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine? The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1415 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1415 "Have at you, then, affection's men-at-arms! Consider what you first did swear unto: To fast, to study, and to see no woman-- Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth. Say, can you fast? Your stomachs are too young, And abstinence engenders maladies. O, we have made a vow to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1425 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1425 "Tranio, since for the great desire I had To see fair Padua, nursery of arts, I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy, And by my father's love and leave am armed With his good will and thy good company, My trusty man, well approved in…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1432 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1432 "Nay, would I were so ang'red with the same! O hateful hands, to tear such loving words! Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey, And kill the bees that yield it with your stings! I'll kiss each several paper for amends. Look, here is writ "kind Julia". Unkind Julia!…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1435 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1435 "Not of a woman's tenderness to be, Requires nor child nor woman's face to see. I have sat too long. VOLUMNIA Nay, go not from us thus. If it were so that our request did tend To save the Romans, thereby to destroy The Volsces whom you serve, you might…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1436 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1436 "Yet I may bind these wounds up that must open And bleed to death for my sake else -- I'll choose, And end their strife. Two such young handsome men Shall never fall for me; their weeping mothers Following the dead cold ashes of their sons, Shall; never curse my…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1488 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1488 "Sweet mistress - what your name is else, I know not, Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine - Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not Than our earth's wonder; more than earth divine. Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1514 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1514 "DAUGHTER: Why should I love this gentleman? 'Tis odds He will never affect me. I am base, My father the mean keeper of his prison, And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless, To be his whore is witless. Out upon't, What pushes are we wenches driven to When…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1515 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1515 "So call it: but it does fulfil my vow; I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1590 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1590 "By day and night he wrongs me; every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other, That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it: His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle. When he returns from hunting, I will not speak with him; say…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1695 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1695 "How happy some o'er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know; And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1809 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1809 "JULIET: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back, foolish tears, back to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1902 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1902 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1904 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1904 "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time: And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1908 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1908 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2025 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2025 "Thou speakest aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal; And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl In the very likeness of a roasted crab…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2068 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2068 "Is Brutus sick? and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humours Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed, To dare the vile contagion of the night And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air To add unto…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2072 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2072 "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2092 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2092 "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie!…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2117 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2117 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2119 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2119 "How happy some others some can be Through Athens I am thought as fair as she But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so He will not know what all but he do know And as he errs doting on Hermia's eyne So I admiring of his qualities Things base…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2172 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2172 "They do me wrong and I will not endure it: Who are they that complain unto the king, That I, forsooth, am stern and love them not? By holy Paul, they love his Grace but lightly, That fill his ears with such dissentious rumors. Because I cannot flatter and speak…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2267 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2267 "Peace, good pintpot. Peace, good ticklebrain. -- Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy time, but also how thou art accompanied. For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. That…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2407 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2407 "You have your wish; my will is even this: That presently you hie you home to bed. Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man! Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless, To be seduced by thy flattery, That hast deceived so many with thy vows? Return, return, and make thy…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2418 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2418 "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force, Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill, Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure, Wherein it finds a joy above the rest…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2463 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2463 "O Charmian! Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he? Or does he walk? or is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! Do bravely, horse, for wot'st thou whom thou mov'st? The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm And burgonet…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2509 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2509 "Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name When I, thy three-hours wife, hath mangled it? But wherefore, villian, didst thou kill my cousin? That villian cousin would have killed my husband! Back, foolish tears, back to your…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2551 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2551 "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: i'll call them back again to comfort me: Nurse! what should she do here? my dismal scene i needs must act alone. come, vial…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2581 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2581 "False to his bed? What is it to be false? To lie in watch thre, and to think on him? To weep 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, To break it with a fearful dream of him, And cry myself awake? That's false to's bed, is it? I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2584 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2584 "PUCK: My mistress with a monster is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play, Intended for great Theseus' nuptial…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2630 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2630 "You are too absolute, Though therein you can never be too noble, But when extremities speak. I have heard you say, Honor and policy, like unsevered friends, I' th' war do grow together. Grant that, and tell me In peace what each of them by th' other lose That they…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2690 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2690 "Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror, Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed, A mother's tears in passion for her son: And if thy sons were ever dear to thee, O, think my son to be as dear to me! Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome, To beautify thy…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2714 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2714 "Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes? And will you? Have you the heart? When your head did but ache I knit my handkercher about your brows, The best I had, a princess wrought it me, And I did never ask it you again; And with my…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2761 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2761 "Whither should I fly? I have done no harm. But I remember now I am in this earthly world; where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defense, To say I have done no harm?…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2791 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2791 "How shall I begin! I have been all tricked by a man whom I trusted and gave all my money to. And yet he stabbed me as if I were a mere scapegoat. yes I am a fool, I am a fool for loving a woman so dearly. If the…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2813 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2813 "To leave my Julia shall I be forsworn; To love fair Silvia shall I be forsworn; To wrong my friend I shall be much forsworn. And e'en that power which gave me first my oath provokes me to this three-fold perjury. Love bade me swear, and love bids me forswear…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2820 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2820 "I see a man's life is a tedious one: I have tired myself, and for two nights together Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick, But that my resolution helps me. Milford, When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee, Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2833 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2833 "Yet here's a spot. Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--Yet who would have thought the old man to have…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2834 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2834 "OPHELIA They bore him barefaced on the bier; Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny; And in his grave rain'd many a tear:-- Fare you well, my dove! LAERTES Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge, It could not move thus. OPHELIA Sings You must sing a-down a-down, An you…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2870 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2870 "Lew. Your grace shall pardon; I will not back: I am too high-born to be propertied, To be a secondary at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world. Your breath first kindled the coal of wars Between this chastis'd kingdom and myself, And brought…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2872 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2872 "All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me: My fleet hath yielded to the foe, and yonder They cast their caps up and carouse together Like friends long lost. Triple-turned whore! 'tis thou Has sold me to this novice, and my heart Makes only wars on thee. Bid them…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2873 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2873 "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me: Nurse! What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Come, vial…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2875 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2875 "O Ned! sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy. Canst thou not speak?—O traitors! murtherers! They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all, Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame, If this foul deed were by to equal it. He was a man: this, in respect, a child…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2893 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2893 "First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd: Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, But issued from the progeny of kings; Virtuous and holy; chosen from above, By inspiration of celestial grace, To work exceeding miracles on earth. I never had to do with wicked spirits: But you…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2939 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2939 "Il faut que j'apprenne à parler. Comment appelle-t-on la main en anglais? Et les doigts? La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense que je suis le bon écolier. Je gagne mots d'anglais vitement. Comment appelle-t-on les ongles? De nails. De hand, de fingres, et de nails. L'anglais…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2948 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2948 "Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. 20 Susan and she—God rest all Christian souls!— Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God. She was too good for me. But, as I said, On Lammas Eve at night…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2952 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2952 "Mowbray: Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal. 'Tis not the trial of a woman's war, The bitter clamour of two eager tongues, Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this. Yet can I not of such tame patience…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2963 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2963 "All hail great master, grave sir hail. I come to answer thy best pleasure; be to fly to swim to dive in the fire, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality. I boarded the kings ship, now in the beak the waist the deck, in every cabin…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2996 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2996 "They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfect'st report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3013 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3013 "O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio? He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs May plod it in a week, why may not I Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,-- Who long'st, like me, to see…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3014 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3014 "O, no more, no more! You have said you will not grant us anything; For we have nothing else to ask but that Which you deny already; yet we will ask, That, if you fail in our request, the blame May hang upon your hardness. Think with thyself How more…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3021 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3021 "To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's his reason?--I am…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3028 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3028 "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3037 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3037 "O for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio? He is at Milford-Haven. Read, and tell me How far ‘tis thither. If one of mean affairs May Plod it in a week, why may not I Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio, Who long'st like me to see…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3038 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3038 "You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand Such as I am. Though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish To wish myself much better, yet for you I would be trebled twenty times myself— A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich— That…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3056 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3056 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3060 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3060 "Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen, Our bending author hath pursu'd the story, In little room confining mighty men, Mangling by starts the full course of their glory. Small time, but in that small most greatly liv'd This star of England. Fortune made his sword; By which the world's…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3066 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3066 "CORDELIA (Aside) Then poor Cordelia! And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's More richer than my tongue. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; nor more nor less. (KING LEAR How, how, Cordelia! mend…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3071 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3071 "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: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3072 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3072 "If music be the food of love, play on Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting The appetite may sicken and so die That strain again! It had a dying fall. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3096 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3096 "I never saw that you did painting need And therefore to your fair no painting set; I found, or thought I found, you did exceed The barren tender of a poet's debt; And therefore have I slept in your report, That you yourself being extant well might show How far…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3111 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3111 "But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3115 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3115 "And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother, That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,-- As by my faith, I see no more in you Than without candle may go dark to bed,-- Must you be therefore proud…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3145 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3145 "Away then. I am lock'd in one of them; If you do love me you will find me out.- Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof. Let music sound while he doth make his choice Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end, Fading in music: That the comparison…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3188 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3188 "SCENE III. The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house. Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT JESSICA I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so: Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil, Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness. But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:And…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3210 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3210 "As I return, I will fetch off these justices: I do see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3220 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3220 "Sir, spare your threats. The Bug which you would fright me with, I seek. To me can life be no commodity. The crown and comfort of my life, your favor, I do give lost for I do feel it gone, but no not how it went. My second joy And…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3234 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3234 "How happy some o'er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3238 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3238 "PROSPERO Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3242 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3242 "A servingman, proud in heart and mind; that curled my hair, wore gloves in my cap, served the lust of my mistress's heart, and did the act of darkness with her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and broke them in the sweet face of heaven; one that…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3260 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3260 "I confess Here on my knee before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor but honest; so's my love. Be not offended, for it hurts not him That he is loved of me. I follow him not…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3284 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3284 "JULIET: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back, foolish tears, back to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3285 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3285 "NURSE: Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she (God rest all Christian souls!) Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; She was too good for me. But, as I said, On Lammas Eve at…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3307 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3307 "Wherefore was I to this mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough younge man, that I did never,no,nor never can, Deserve a sweer look from Demetrius eye But you muct flout my insufficiency? Good troth, you do me wrong, good…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3310 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3310 "CASSIUS: I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favor. Well, honor is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but for my single self, I had as lief (1) not…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3336 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3336 "Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, Hath for your love as great a pang of heart As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her; You tell her so; must she not, then, be answer'd? I know too well what love women to men may owe; In faith…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3347 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3347 "O, I am out of breath in this fond chase! The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies; For she hath blessed and attractive eyes. How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears: If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3368 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3368 "Even here, undone, I was not much afeared; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone? I told you what…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3388 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3388 "Since what I am to say must be but that Which contradicts my accusation and The testimony on my part no other But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, Be so received. But…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3398 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3398 "O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent To set against me for your merriment: If you we re civil and knew courtesy, You would not do me thus much injury. Can you not hate me, as I know you do, But you must join in souls to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3400 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3400 "But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant Time? And fortify yourself in your decay With means more blessed than my barren rhyme? Now stand you on the top of happy hours, And many maiden gardens, yet unset, With virtuous wish would bear your…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3410 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3410 "'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here, Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her; But Romeo may not: more validity, More honourable state, more courtship lives In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3422 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3422 "if by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar allay them the sky it seems would pour out stinking pitch but that the see mounting to thy welchins cheek dashes the fire out oh i have suffered with those i saw suffer: a…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3448 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3448 "ORLANDO As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3486 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3486 "Blanche- Husband, to arms? Upon thy wedding day? Against the blood that thou hast married? What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men? Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums, Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp? O husband, hear me! Ay, alack, how new Is 'husband' in…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3493 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3493 "Rumble thy bellyful. Spit, fire; spout rain. Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters. I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children; You owe me no subsciption. Then let fall Your horrible pleasure. Here I stand, your slave A poor, infirm…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3495 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3495 "Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night. I jest to Oberon, and make him smile When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, Neighing in likeness of a filly foal: And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab; And…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3496 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3496 "Find them out whose names are written here! It is written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3515 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3515 "JAQUES: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3520 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3520 "His company must do his minions grace, Whilst I at home starve for a merry look. Hath homely age the alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? then, he hath wasted it: Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd, Unkindness blunts it more…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3532 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3532 "Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who should…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3550 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3550 "Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, another laced; an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town armory, with a broken hilt and chapeless; with two broken…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3554 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3554 "Let it fall rather, though the fork invade The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly, When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak, When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound, When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3561 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3561 "Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you Transport her purposes by word? Belike, Something -- I know not what: I'll love thee much, Let me unseal the letter. (...) I know your lady does not love her husband; I am sure of that: and at her late being…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3562 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3562 "Sir, I am about to weep; but, thinking that We are a queen, or long have dream'd so, certain The daughter of a king, my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire. (CARDINAL WOLSEY Be patient yet.) I will, when you are humble; nay, before, Or God will…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3571 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3571 "I confess Here on my knee before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor but honest; so's my love. Be not offended, for it hurts not him That he is loved of me. I follow him not…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3582 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3582 "'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible; true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set eye upon the pernicious and…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3652 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3652 "Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show; But wonder on, till truth make all things plain. This man is Pyramus, if you would know; This beauteous lady Thisby is certain. This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder; And through Wall's…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3665 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3665 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3669 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3669 "I would not be thy executioner: I fly thee, for I would not injure thee. Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye: 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable, That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things, Who shut their coward gates on atomies, Should be call'd tyrants…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3670 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3670 "He took me by the wrist, and held me hard,then goes he to the length of all his arm, and with his other hand thus o'er his brow, he falls to such perusal of my face as 'a would draw it. Long stayed he so. At last, a little shaking…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3700 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3700 "PAROLLES: It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3701 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3701 "Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you-- Not to affect many proposed matches?Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,?Whereto we see in all things nature tends--?Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,?Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.?But pardon me; I do not in position?Distinctly speak of her;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3765 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3765 "You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart is true as steel:Leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you. I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3772 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3772 "Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace! False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends! Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces? It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard: 5 Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again: It cannot be; thou dost but…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3811 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3811 "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. I dreamt my lady came and found me dead- Strange…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3812 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3812 "I heard my self proclaim'd; And by the happy hollow of a tree Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place, That guard, and most unusual vigilance Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape, I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3816 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3816 "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, Towards Phoebus' lodging; such a wagoner As Phaethon would whip you to the west, And bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen. Lovers can see to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3825 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3825 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3833 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3833 "Fie, fie! Unknit that threatening unkind brow And dart not scornful glances from those eyes. To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor; It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds, And in no sense is meet or amiable. A…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3835 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3835 "Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency? Good troth you do…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3841 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3841 "Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for. But I do think it is their husbands' faults if wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties and pour our treasures into foreign laps; or else break out in peevish jealousies;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3843 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3843 "How happy some o'er other some can be! Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so; He will not know what all but he do know. And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes, So I, admiring of his qualities. Things…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3848 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3848 "Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!-- Were of an age: well, Susan is with God; She was too good for me: but, as I said, On Lammas-eve at night shall she be…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3851 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3851 "Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment And state of bodies would bewray what life We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself How more unfortunate than all living women Are we come hither: since that thy sight, which should Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3860 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3860 "To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, Who would believe me? O perilous mouths, That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Either of condemnation or approof; Bidding the law make court'sy to their will: Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, To follow as it…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3869 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3869 "Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,-- Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, On pain of torture, from those bloody hands Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3872 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3872 "My mistress with a monster is in love. Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play, Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3879 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3879 "Now I am he sir. He that must marry this woman. Therefore, you clown, abandon,–which is in the vulgar, leave,–the society,–which in the boorish is company,–of this female,–which in the common is women,–which together is abandon the society of this female; or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3881 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/3881 "O hateful hands, to tear such loving words! Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey And kill the bees that yield it with your stings! I'll kiss each several paper for amends. Look, here is writ 'kind Julia:' unkind Julia! As in revenge of thy ingratitude, I throw thy…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1419 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1419 "Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/249 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/249 "Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best to pluck this crawling serpent from my breast. Ay me, for pity. What a dream was here! Lysander, look how I do quake with fear. Methought a serpent eat my heart away, and you sat smiling at his cruel prey. Lysander! What…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/784 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/784 "Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game. Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures; she hath urged her height; And with her personage, her tall personage, Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him. 305 And are you grown so high in his esteem;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/513 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/513 "I pray thee, give it me. 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: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight; And there…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1582 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1582 "Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove Till I torment thee for this injury. My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/290 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/290 "Out of this wood do not desire to go Thou shalt remian here whether thou wilt or no I am a spirit of no common rate The summer still doth tend upon my state And I do love thee Therefore go with me And I shall give thee fairies to…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/806 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/806 "…..Why art thou here? Come from the furthest steppe of India? But that, forsooth, the bouncing amazon, Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love, To Theseus must be wedded, and you come To give their bed joy and prosperity. Never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/982 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/982 "Set your heart at rest: The fairy land buys not the child of me. His mother was a votaress of my order: And, in the spiced Indian air, by night, Full often hath she gossip'd by my side, And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands, Marking the embarked traders…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1199 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1199 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/970 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/970 "PAROLLES: It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/37 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/37 "Then I confess, Here on my knee, before high heaven and you That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love: Be not offended, for it hurts not him That he is lov'd of me: I follow him…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/448 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/448 "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. What power is it which mounts my love so high; That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/559 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/559 "O! were that all. I think not on my father; And these great tears grace his remembrance more Than those I shed for him. What was he like? I have forgot him: my imagination Carries no favour in 't but Bertram's. I am undone: there is no living, none, If…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2178 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2178 "O! were that all. I think not on my father; And these great tears grace his remembrance more Than those I shed for him. What was he like? I have forgot him: my imagination Carries no favour in 't but Bertram's. I am undone: there is no living, none, If…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2285 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2285 "HELENA: I confess Here on my knee before high heaven and you, That before you, and next unto high heaven, I love your son. My friends were poor but honest; so's my love. Be not offended, for it hurts not him That he is loved of me. I follow him…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/195 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/195 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1864 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1864 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1542 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1542 "It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost may be ten times found; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1867 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1867 "No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. It were for me To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods; To tell them that this world did equal theirs Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2654 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2654 "Where think'st thou he is he now? Stands he, or sits he? Or does he walk? or is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest? The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm and burgonet of…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1845 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1845 "Think not I love him, though I ask for him; 'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well. But what care I for words? Yet words do well When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. It is a pretty youth; not very pretty; But sure he's proud;…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/243 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/243 "It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2672 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2672 "O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1021 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1021 "I would not be thy executioner: I fly thee, for I would not injure thee. Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye: 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable, That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things, Who shut their coward gates on atomies, Should be call'd tyrants…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1512 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1512 "You common cry of curs!whose breath I hate As reek o'th'rotten fens,whose loves I prize As the dad carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air: I banish you! And here remain with your uncertainty! Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts! Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1846 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1846 "I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in favoring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like upon too trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock of…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/890 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/890 "Nay, go not from us thus. If it were so that our request did tend To save the Romans, thereby to destroy The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us, As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces May say 'This…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/645 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/645 "I did not take my leave of him, but had Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him How I would think on him at certain hours Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear The shes of Italy should not betray Mine interest and his…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/961 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/961 "Why, I must die; And if I do not by thy hand, thou art No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart. Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence; Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1189 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1189 "The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd The chastity he wounded. Cytherea, How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily, And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch! But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1075 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1075 "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven; It hath the primal eldest curse upon't, A brother's murther! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2685 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2685 "There is a willow grows aslant a brook That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. Therewith fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies and long purples, That liberal shepherds did give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. There on…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2206 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2206 "Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't, ah fie!…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2596 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2596 "HAMLET: O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon [1] 'gainst self slaughter. O God, God, How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2628 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2628 "HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2502 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2502 "Not from his mouth, Had it the ability of life to thank you: He never gave commandment for their death. But since, so jump upon this bloody question, You from the Polack wars, and you from England, Are here arrived give order that these bodies High on a stage be…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/35 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/35 "Do not think so; you shall not find it so: And God forgive them that so much have sway'd Your majesty's good thoughts away from me! I will redeem all this on Percy's head And in the closing of some glorious day Be bold to tell you that I am…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/74 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/74 "Open your ears; for which of you will stop The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks? I, from the orient to the drooping west (Making the wind my post-horse), still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1812 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1812 "As young as I am, I have observed these three swashers. I am boy to all three; but all three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and red-faced; by…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1969 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1969 "KING: The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. See you, my princes and my noble…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2220 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2220 "O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2440 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2440 ".ELEANOR: Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself. For whilst I think I am thy married wife And thou a prince, Protector of this land, Methinks I should not thus be led along, Mailed up [1] in shame, with papers on my back, And followed with a rabble that rejoice…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/856 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/856 "The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly. Now help, ye charming spells and periapts; And ye choice spirits that admonish me And give me signs of future accidents. [Thunder] You speedy helpers, that are substitutes Under the lordly monarch of the north, Appear and aid me in this enterprise. [Enter…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1377 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1377 "Come. Make him stand upon this molehill here That raught at mountains with outstretched arms Yet parted but the shadow with his hand. What? Was it you that would that would be England's king? Was't you that reveled in our parliament And made a preachment of your high descent? Where…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/662 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/662 "Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced? I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch! Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me; And given unto the house of York such head As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance. To entail him and his heirs unto…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1897 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1897 "QUEEN KATHARINE Sir, I desire you do me right and justice; And to bestow your pity on me: for I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, Born out of your dominions; having here No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir, In…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/28 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/28 "Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin: Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye! Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge That no king can corrupt. The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye, Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues; But cardinal…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/924 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/924 "Sir, I desire you do me right and justice; And to bestow your pity on me: for I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, Born out of your dominions; having here No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir, In what have…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/725 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/725 "I doubt not of your wisdom. Let each man render me his bloody hand. First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand; Now, Decius Brutus, yours; now yours, Metellus; Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours; Though last, not least in love…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1547 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1547 "It must be by his death. And for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crowned: How that might change his nature, there's the question It is the bright day that brings forth the adder And that craves wary…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2008 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2008 "Romans, countrymen, be patient till the last. Hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor and have respect to mine honor that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom and awake your senses that you may the better judge. Roman…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2108 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2108 "Remember March, the ides of March remember. Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body,that did stab, And not for justice? What,shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2652 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2652 "Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me. There is one within, Besides the things that we have heard and seen, Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. A lioness hath whelped in the streets; And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead; Fierce fiery…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/822 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/822 "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1727 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1727 "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,-- Which…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/696 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/696 "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1243 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1243 "If this were true, then should I know this secret. I grant I am a woman, but withal a woman that Lord Brutus took to wife. I grant I am a woman, but withal a woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter. Think you I am no stronger thaqn my sex, Being so…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2607 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/2607 ""I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine. There's never none of these demure boys come to any proof; for…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/834 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/834 "The regent conquers and the French- men fly. Now help, ye charming spells and periapts; And ye choice spirits that admonish me And give me signs of future accidents: You speedy helpers, that are substitutes Under the lordly monarch of the north, Appear, and aid me in this enterprise This…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1921 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1921 "First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd: Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, But issu'd from the progeny of kings; Virtuous and holy; chosen from above, By inspiration of celestial grace, To work exceeding miracles on earth. I never had to do with wicked spirits: But you,—that…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/65 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/65 "A foot of honour better than I was; But many a many foot of land the worse. Well, now can I make any Joan a lady. 'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'-- And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names; 'Tis too…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1160 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1160 "King John Act III, sc. 4 (line 98) CONSTANCE Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1367 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1367 "Now shame upon you whether she does or no. His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames, Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes, WHich heaven shall take in nature of a fee. Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed To do him justice, and revenge on…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1396 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/1396 "Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace! False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends! Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces? It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard: Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again: It cannot be; thou dost but say…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/707 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/707 "I yet beseech your majesty,-- If for I want that glib and oily art, To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step, That hath deprived me…" http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/66 http://www.monologuesearch.com/monologues/66