Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.” – Stephen Kingģ. “Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief… but brevity makes sweetness, doesn’t it? Yes, I think so. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s a fresh opportunity to make it better.” – Unknown authorĢ. “Always end the day, with a positive thought. Even if the previous day was rough and a lot of bad things happened, once you rest throughout the night and are awakened by the dawn, you have a new opportunity to start all over again – and that’s the only thing that matters.ġ. (Julius Caesar) ‘Fare you well, your suit is cold.These “sweet dreams” quotes can easily inspire anyone to get up in the morning and do their best. (Romeo and Juliet) ‘And whether we shall meet again I know not. That I shall say good night till it be morrow.’ (Antony and Cleopatra) ‘Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, We’ve listed plenty of them here, whilst our very top favourites are: ‘Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.’ Shakespeare’s FarewellsĪs with most aspects of the written and spoken words, Shakespeare was a master at giving his characters fantastic farewell speeches and quotes. John Goodman, playing the character Walter, says “goodnight sweet prince,” as he dumps the ashes of his late friend, Donny. The most famous of those is in the Coen Brothers 1998 film, The Big Lebowski. The line is often used in films, sometimes ironically. It would be difficult for anyone to produce words more perfect than these by Shakespeare for such an occasion. Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest’ thereby expressing in those few words, everything that could be said about her emotions on bidding her husband, friend, and lover farewell. When the great 20th Century dramatist, Harold Pinter died, as the coffin was about to be lowered into the grave, his widow, Lady Antonia Fraser, came forward, gazed at it and, with tears in her eyes, said, ‘Now cracks a noble heart. It is also used on social media to pay tribute to celebrities, such as Whoopi Goldberg’s tribute to Li’l Wayne, and Zach Galifianakis’ tribute to Johnny Knoxville, both quoting the phrase. It is more than that, though, as it also expresses respect, and has been used many times at the funerals of national figures – political leaders and social achievers. And so ‘good night, sweet prince’ has become a poignant way of bidding a deceased loved one farewell. Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.’Īs is so often the case with Shakespeare, he finds the most perfect combination of words to put a thought or idea or an emotion into a character’s mouth, which then becomes a way of expressing that emotion in a way that simply can’t be bettered. He looks down at his friend and says, ‘Now cracks a noble heart. Horatio is left alone with the bodies all around him. Stabbed with a poison-tipped rapier, he dies, and utters his last words: ‘The rest is silence.’ ‘Readiness is all,’ he says as he prepares for his final hour. The corruption has collapsed around the corrupt, and as Hamlet has observed, all he had to do was let it happen. ”tis the sport to have the engineer/Hoist with his own petard.’ As Hamlet put it earlier in connection with the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who also fell into the trap they had help set for him, in a sentence that has become an idiom: In that scene, all those who have plotted the death of Hamlet have fallen into their own traps. The final scene – at the end of which almost every lies dead on the stage – has Hamlet dying in his friend, Horatio’s arms. ‘Good night sweet prince’ is a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale
This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.