Shakespearean Soliloquies

For those also studying Shakespeare, you may find this list of Shakespeare's soliloquies from Shakespeare's Great Soliloquies helpful.

All's Well That Ends Well
Helena: "O, were that all! I think not on my father" [Act I, Scene 1]
Helena: "Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie" [Act I, Scene 1]
	Antony and Cleopatra
Enobarbus: "I am alone the villain of the earth" [Act IV, Scene 6]
Enobarbus: "O, bear me witness, night--" [Act IV, Scene 9]
Antony: "All is lost!/This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me" [Act IV, Scene 12]
Cleopatra: "I dreamt there was an Emperor Antony" [Act V, Scene 2]
	As You Like It
Orlando: "Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love" [Act III, Scene 2]
	Coriolanus
Coriolanus: "Most sweet voices!/Better it is to die, better to starve" [Act II, Scene 3]
Coriolanus: "O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn" [Act IV, Scene 4]
	Cymbeline
Posthumus: "O noble misery!/To be i' the field, and ask, 'What news?' of me!" [Act V, Scene 3]
Posthumus: "Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot" [Act V, Scene 4]
	Hamlet
Hamlet: "Now I am alone./O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" [Act II, Scene 2]
Hamlet: "To be or not to be, that is the question" [Act III, Scene 1]
Ophelia: "O, what a noble mind is here o'er-thrown!" [Act III, Scene 1]
Hamlet: "'Tis now the very witching time of night" [Act III, Scene 2]
Claudius, King of Denmark: "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven!" [Act III, Scene 3]
	Henry IV, Part 1
Prince Hal: "I know you all, and will awhile uphold" [Act I, Scene 2]
Hotspur: "'But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented . . .'" [Act II, Scene 3]
Falstaff: "If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused gurnet." [Act IV, Scene 2]
	Henry IV, Part 2
King Henry IV: "How many thousand of my poorest subjects" [Act III, Scene 1]
Falstaff: "As I return, I will fetch off these justices . . ." [Act III, Scene 2]
	Henry V
King Henry: "Upon the king! Let us our lives, our souls" [Act IV, Scene 1]
King Henry: "O God of battles, steel my soldiers' hearts" [Act IV, Scene 1]
	Henry VI, Part 1
La Pucelle (Joan of Arc): "The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly" [Act V, Scene 3]
Suffolk: "I have no power to let her pass" [Act V, Scene 3]
	Henry VI, Part 2
York: "Anjou and Maine are given to the French" [Act I, Scene 1]
Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester: "Follow I must; I cannot go before" [Act I, Scene 2]
York: "Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts" [Act III, Scene 1]
King Henry: "O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts" [Act III, Scene 2]
Young Clifford: "Shame and confusion! all is on the rout" [Act V, Scene 2]
	Henry VI, Part 3
Henry: "This battle fares like to the morning's war" [Act II, Sce
Clifford: "Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies" [Act II, Scene 6]
Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "Ay, Edward will use women honourably" [Act III, Scene 2]
Warwick: "Ah, who is nigh? Come to me, friend or foe" [Act V, Scene 2]
Richard, Duke of Gloucester: "What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster" [Act V, Scene 6]
	Henry VIII
Cardinal Wolsey: "So farewell to the little good you bear me" [Act III, Scene 2]
	Julius Caesar
Brutus: "Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar" [Act II, Scene 1]
Brutus: "O conspiracy!/Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night" [Act II, Scene 1]
Antony: "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth" [Act III, Scene 1]
	King John
Philip the Bastard: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!" [Act II, Scene 1]
	King Lear
Edmund: "Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law" [Act I, Scene 2]
Edmund: "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune . . ." [Act I, Scene 2]
Lear: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!" [Act III, Scene 2]
Edgar: "When we our betters see bearing our woes" [Act III, Scene 6]
	Love's Labour's Lost
Armado: "I do affect the very ground, which is base, where her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which is basest, doth tread." [Act I, Scene 2]
Berowne: "And I, forsooth, in love!" [Act III, Scene 1]
	Macbeth
Macbeth: "This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good . . ." [Act I, Scene 3]
Lady Macbeth: "They met me in the day of success; and I have learned by the perfectest report, they have more in
them than mortal knowledge." [Act I, Scene 5]
Lady Macbeth: "The raven himself is hoarse" [Act I, Scene 5]
Macbeth: "Is this a dagger which I see before me" [Act II, Scene 1]
Porter: "Here's a knocking indeed!" [Act II, Scene 3]
Lady Macbeth: "Yet here's a spot" [Act V, Scene 1]
	Measure for Measure
Angelo: "What's this? What's this? Is this her fault or mine?" [Act II, Scene 2]
Angelo: "When I would pray and think, I think and pray" [Act II, Scene 4]
Isabella: "To whom should I complain? Did I tell this" [Act II, Scene 4]
Duke: "He who the sword of heaven will bear" [Act III, Scene 2]
Angelo: "This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant" [Act IV, Scene 4]
	The Merry Wives of Windsor
Ford: "What a damned Epicurean rascal is this!" [Act II, Scene 2]
Falstaff: "The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute draws on." [Act V, Scene 5]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena: "How happy some o'er other some can be!" [Act I, Scene 1]
Helena: "O, I am out of breath in this fond chase" [Act II, Scene 2]
Hermia: "Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best" [Act II, Scene 2]
Helena: "O weary night, O long and tedious night" [Act III, Sce
Bottom: "When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer" [Act IV, Scene 1]
Pyramus: "Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams" [Act V, Scene 1]
	Much Ado About Nothing
Benedick: "I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love . . ." [Act II, Scene 3]
Benedick: "This can be no trick . . ." [Act II, Scene 3]
Beatrice: "What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?" [Act III, Scene 1]
	Othello
Iago: "And what's he then that says I play the villain" [Act II, Scene 3]
Othello: "It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul" [Act V, Scene 2]
	Pericles
Pericles: "Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!" [Act II, Scene 1]
	Richard II
Richard: "I have been studying how I may compare" [Act V, Scene 5]
	Richard III
Richard: "Now is the winter of our discontent" [Act I, Scene 1]
Richard: "Was ever woman in this humour wooed?" [Act I, Scene 2]
Richard: "Give me another horse! Bind up my wounds!" [Act V, Scene 3]
	Romeo and Juliet
Romeo: "But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [Act II, Scene 2]
Juliet: "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" [Act II, Scene 2]
Friar Laurence: "The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night" [Act II, Scene 3]
Juliet: "Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds" [Act III, Scene 2]
Juliet: "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again" [Act IV, Scene 3]
Romeo: "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep" [Act V, Scene 1]
Romeo: "Let me peruse this face" [Act V, Scene 3]
	The Taming of the Shrew
Petruchio: "Thus have I politicly begun my reign" [Act IV, Scene 1]
	The Tempest
Caliban: "All the infections that the sun sucks up" [Act II, Scene 2]
Ferdinand: "There be some sports are painful, and their labour" [Act III, Scene 1]
	Timon of Athens
Alcibiades: "Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live" [Act III, Scene 5]
Timon: "Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall" [Act IV, Scene 1]
Flavius: "O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!" [Act IV, Scene 2]
Timon: "O blessed breeding sun! Draw from the earth" [Act IV, Scene 3]
	Troilus and Cressida
Troilus: "Peace, you ungracious clamours! Peace, rude sounds!" [Act I, Scene 1]
Cressida: "Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice" [Act I, Scene 2]
Troilus: "I am giddy; expectation whirls me round" [Act III, Scene 2]
	Twelfth Night
Olivia: "'What is your parentage?'" [Act I, Scene 5]
Violet: "I left no ring with her: what means this lady?" [Act II, Scene 2]
Malvolio: "'Tis but fortune; all is fortune" [Act II, Scene 5]
Violet: "This fellow's wise enough to play the fool" [Act III, Sce
Sebastian: "This is the air; that is the glorious sun" [Act IV, Scene 3]
	The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Julia: "Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!" [Act I, Scene 2]
Launce: "Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping" [Act II, Scene 3]
Proteus: "To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn" [Act II, Scene 6]
Valentine: "And why not death rather than living torment?" [Act III, Scene 1]
Launce: "When a man's servant shall play the cur with him, look you, it goes hard . . ." [Act IV, Scene 4]
Julia: "A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful" [Act IV, Scene 4]
Valentine: "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Act V, Scene 4]
The Winter's Tale
Camillo: "O miserable lady! But, for me" [Act I, Scene 2]

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