100+ Powerful Play Quote Ideas to Elevate Your Copywriting Game

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

"I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth."

"Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage."

"Out, out, brief candle! Life is but a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"

"My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"

"How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge."

"O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!"

"The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"

"There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will."

"He has no children. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?"

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day."

"I am constant as the northern star."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"If I cannot prove a lover, I'll be a villain."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"All that glisters is not gold."

"Though she be but little, she is fierce!"

"Words, words, words."

"Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but never doubt I love."

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Come, civil night, thou sober-suited matron, all in black, and learn me how to lose a winning match."

"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."

"You have witchcraft in your lips, in which my soul is damned."

"She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies."

"I would my tongue could utter the thoughts that arise in me!"

"Thou art as fair in knowledge as in feature."

"I saw her dancing there, and I was drawn to her like iron to a magnet."

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"I am not afraid to die; I only fear that my cause may die with me."

"I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked."

"Lay on, Macduff, and damn'd be he who first cries 'Hold, enough!'"

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."

"I am resolved, and have the strength of resolution."

"Let us go forth to lead the land we love."

"I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet."

"I am myself alone."

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

"Men at some time are masters of their fates."

"Nothing will come of nothing."

"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

"The quality of mercy is not strained."

"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"Time is a great physician, but it’s also a lousy accountant."

"I do love nothing in the world so well as money."

"Why, then, the world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."

"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"I was with Hercules and heard him exclaim, 'Ay, there’s the point!'"

"I am not what I am."

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

"I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel and cry like a woman."

"I speak without thinking, and that makes me dangerous."

"Methinks the lady doth protest too much."

"I’ll be hanged if I have said anything!"

"Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other."

"I am ambitious for myself, but more for my son."

"Power is sweet, even when it poisons."

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition."

"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown."

"I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none."

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."

"I have no words, my voice is in my sword."

"I think our state will soon dissolve; I hear the enemies making proclamation."

"I am not in the giving vein today."

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears."

"Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar."

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make ’t known?"

"I should have been a better father to you."

"I loved you not." "I was the more deceived."

"You have done me wrong."

"I trusted you with my life, and you sold it."

"There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face."

"He was a friend of mine. I should have known."

"You wear this cloak like a badge of honor, but it reeks of deceit."

"I gave you everything, and you repaid me with lies."

"The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown."

"I named you brother, but you’ve acted like a knife."

"I begin to repent of my former life."

"I have loved the principles, I now embrace the penitent."

"I know I have done wrong, but I seek to make it right."

"Mercy becomes the throned monarch better than his crown."

"I would I had died before I saw this hour."

"To be forgiven, one must first forgive."

"I have offended happiness, and I shall try to repair it."

"Let us not talk of sins, but of salvation."

"I have wronged you deeply. Will you grant me grace?"

"Repentance is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"I stand here stripped of pride, asking only for peace."

"Forgive me, not because I deserve it, but because you are kind."

"It is not in the stars to rule our fate, but in ourselves."

"The stars above us govern our conditions."

"I am fortune’s fool!"

"What’s past is prologue."

"The wheel is come full circle; I am here."

"Fate hath brought us together, and fate shall decide our end."

"Our lives are not our own; we are bound to others, past and present."

"I am not mistress of my fate, but I am captain of my soul."

"The path is set, the die is cast."

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."

"I see my reputation is at stake."

"I am prepared to meet my destiny, whatever it may be."