"An honest tale speeds bast being plainly told."
-- Richard III
"On a day - alack the day - Love, whose month is ever May, spied a blossom passing fair playing in the wanton air."
-- Love's Labour's Lost
"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books. But love from love, toward school with heavy books."
-- Romeo and Juliet
"Of all the base passions, fear is the most accursed."
-- Henry VI, Part I
"Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee calls back the lovely April of her prime."
-- Sonnet
"Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, but to support them after."
-- Timon of Athens
"Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity."
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Truth is truth To the very end of reckoning."
-- Measure for Measure
"Fortune, good night; smile once more, turn thy wheel."
-- King Lear
"Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath"
-- Midsummer Night's Dream
"To define true madness, What is't but but to be nothing else but mad?"
-- Hamlet
"Oh Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
-- Midsummer Night's Dream
"Love makes fools of us all"
-- Midsummer Night's Dream
"Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend,
I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days.
O, by this count I shall be much in years
Ere again I behold my Romeo."
-- Romeo and Juliet
"Thy lips are warm..."
-- Romeo and Juliet
"Good night sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest..."
-- Hamlet
"Words, Words, Words."
-- Hamlet
"Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night, give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love, but not possess'd it, and, though I am sold, not yet enjoy'd..."
-- Romeo and Juliet
"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 hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
-- Macbeth
"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 good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with you in the behalf of a good play! I am not furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not become me. My way is to conjure you; and I�ll begin with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love you bear to men, to like as much of this play as please you. And I charge you, O men, for the love you bear to women�as I perceive by your simpering none of you hates them� that between you and the women the play may please. If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not. And I am sure, as many as have good beards, or good faces, or sweet breaths will for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell."
-- As You Like It
-- Woddy Allen
"'All you need is love.' John Lennon said that; smart guy, shot in the back, very sad."
-- Independence Day
"French Man: And most importantly, [we French are better] because the pope, himself, is French!
English Man: Oh really? Well the pope may be French, but Jesus Christ was English!"
-- A Knight's Tale
"WAIT UP! Wait for me! Not YOU! I don't even KNOW you!"
--Princess Diaries
"Reporter:Tell me, how did you find America?
John:Turn after Greenland."
-- Hard Day's Night
"It's not easy having a good time...even smiling makes my face ache"
-- Rocky Horror Picture Show
"I'm running away from my creator and his 'minions'...i don't know, they just give me this feeling of [what's a yacht for?]...forboding."
-- Rocky Horror Show
"Master, Rocky has broken his chains and vanished. The new playmate is loose and somewhere on the grounds. Magenta has just released...the dogs."
-- Rocky Horror Picture Show
"And crawling on the planet's face, some insects, called the human race, lost in time, lost in space, and meaning."
-- Rocky Horror Picture Show
"Not all men are bad...some of them are dead!"
-- NOSE
"Fifty years with her are like a lifetime with anyone else!"
-- Zorro, The Gay Blade
"Could you PLEASE step on the same foot at the same time!
My tits are falling off!!!"
-- History of the World: Part I
"Igor: It's times like this that I remember what my old dad used to say.
Dr. Friedrich von Frankenstein: What was that?
Igor: 'What the hell are you doing in the bathroom all day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?'"
-- Young Frankenstein
"Juror #10: Bright? He's a common ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English.
Juror #11: Doesn't even speak good English."
-- 12 Angry Men
"Clouseau: Does your dog bite?
Hotel Clerk: No.
Clouseau: [bowing down to pet the dog] Nice doggie.
[Dog barks and bites Clouseau in the hand]
Clouseau: I thought you said your dog did not bite!
Hotel Clerk: That is not my dog."
--The Pink Panther Strikes Again
"Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable."
-- Clue
"What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn�t you consider that to be insane?"
-- Con Air
"You wanna waste my time? Okay. I call my lawyer. He's the best lawyer in Miami. He's such a good lawyer, that by tomorrow morning, you gonna be working in Alaska. So dress warm."
-- Scarface
"You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get a nice hot bath. Rest up... 15 minutes. Then get your asses back in gear. We're under a lot of pressure, you know, and you put us there. Nothing's riding on this except the, uh, first amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press, and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys fuck up again, I'm going to get mad. Good night."
-- All The President's Men
"I may be on the devil's hit list, but I'm on God's mailing list."
-- The Apostle
"What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you."
-- The Godfather
"The Mississippi River broke through a protective dike today. What is a protective dike? Is it a large woman that says �Don't go near there! Don't go down by the river!�... No, we can't say �dyke� on the air, we can't even say �lesbian� anymore, it's �women in comfortable shoes.�"
-- Good Morning Vietnam
I will not carry a gun, Frank. When I got thrown into this war I had a clear understanding with the Pentagon: no guns. I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!"
--M*A*S*H*
�Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.�
-- Patton
"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!"
-- The Untouchables