I love Shakespeare dearly, and I've read almost all of the plays. However, if Shakespeare's collection of sonnets and other miscellaneous poems are also fair game, I'd really like to offer a few quotes for those, as well.
'Thrice-fairer than myself,' thus she began, 'The field's chief flower, sweet above compare, Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man, More white and red than doves or roses are; Nature that made thee, with herself at strife, Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.'
There are a few quotes from plays that I like, too. From Katerina, in Taming of the Shrew near II.i.32, "I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day // And for your love to her lead apes in hell." I also really like V.ii.200-ish in Henry V, "mock me mercifully" and II.i.64-66 of Two Gentlemen of Verona, "If you love her, you cannot see her. // Why? // Because love is blind! O, that you had mine eyes."
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For longer table-prompts, I recommend the sonnets that begin with how can my muse want subject to invent, the forward violet thus did I chide, let those who are in favour with their stars, if the dull substance of my flesh were thought, when in the chronicle of wasted time, and no longer mourn for me when I am dead. They are some of my favorites, and there are roughly 150 others on that website.
From Venus and Adonis:
There are a few quotes from plays that I like, too. From Katerina, in Taming of the Shrew near II.i.32, "I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day // And for your love to her lead apes in hell." I also really like V.ii.200-ish in Henry V, "mock me mercifully" and II.i.64-66 of Two Gentlemen of Verona, "If you love her, you cannot see her. // Why? // Because love is blind! O, that you had mine eyes."