Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech

Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 4

Romeo & Juliet sonnet-based flirting

Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 5

ROMEO 
[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two…

Macbeth- dagger soliloquy

Macbeth, Act II, Scene 1

Marc Antony’s famous speech, Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 2

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. (80)

So oft it chances…

Hamlet, Act I, Scen

So oft it chances in particular men,
That for some vicious mole of nature in them,
As, in their birth — wherein they are not guilty,
Since nature cannot choose his origin — 
By the o’ergrowth of some complexion,
Oft breaking down the pales and forts…

Edmund’s first soliloquy (King Lear)

King Lear: Act 1, Scene 2

Edmund:

Thou, Nature, art my goddess. To thy law

My services are bound. Wherefore should I

Clarence’s big speech, Richard III

This is a beautiful speech, with exceptional imagery. I’ve included a few of Brakenbury’s lines, which break up Clarence’s description of his dream.

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I…

Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 (just for kicks, I’m presenting it in original spelling, copied from the New Oxford Shakespeare: Critical Reference Edition)

O what a rogue and pesant slaue am I.
Is it not monstrous that this player heere
But in…

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

This is a short one, but it’s a marvelous speech. It’s Macbeth’s speech after he finds out his wife is dead.

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.

My favorite line in all of Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2:

I am but mad north north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.