From Simran Khurana,
Your Guide to Quotations.
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Shakespeare plays still hold a mystical allure for theatre lovers. Here is a handpicked collection of quotes from Shakespeare plays. These quotes are a part of the dialogue spoken by key characters in Shakespeare's plays.

Julius Caesar -- Act III, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

King Henry IV. Part I -- Act I, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
'T is my vocation, Hal; 't is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.

Timon of Athens -- Act I, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
Here 's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

Julius Caesar -- Act IV, Sc. III: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
You yourself
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm.

King Henry IV. Part I -- Act V, Sc. IV: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
This earth that bears thee dead
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.

Hamlet -- Act II, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act I, Sc. I: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

Julius Caesar -- Act III, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

Hamlet -- Act III, Sc. I: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

Love's Labour 's Lost -- Act V, Sc. II: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion.

Troilus and Cressida -- Act II, Sc. III: Quotes from Shakespeare Plays
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.