SHAKESPEAREAN SENTENCE STARTERS . . . seventy dialogue prompts for your period and fantasy rp needs. lightly edited for more current / accessible language.
"The course of true love never did run smooth."
"If music be the food of love, play on."
"There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned."
"I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?"
"Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
"How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!"
"Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people."
"Better three hours too soon than a minute late."
"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
"Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?"
"I wasted time, and now time wastes me."
"You don't have half the power to do me harm as I have to be hurt."
"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
"Let not light see my black and deep desires."
"I pray you speak of me as I am."
"Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
"Idol of idiot-worshippers!"
"No legacy is so rich as honesty."
"What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?"
"It is a tale told by an idiot."
"You've got to be cruel to be kind."
"Shall this speak be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology?"
"The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity."
"Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly."
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
"Come not between the dragon and his wrath!"
"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words."
"Who is man that is not angry?"
"Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it."
"Come not within the measure of my wrath."
"There is no following her in this fierce vein."
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
"It's not so sweet now as it was before."
"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
"Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."
"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it."
"My only love sprung from my only hate!"
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
"Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."
"Though this be madness, there isn't method."
"Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly."
"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
"I can see he's not in your good books."
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"What's done cannot be undone."
"In time we hate that which we often fear."
"Teach me how I should forget to think."
"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
"Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?"
"I am not bound to please you with my answers."
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."
"What do you read, my lord?"
"Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
"Are you sure that we are awake?"
"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."
"For which of my bad parts did you first fall in love with me?"
"What piece of work is a man."
"Nothing will come of nothing: speak again."
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is often buried with their bones."
"You can't lose a game if you don't play the game."
"Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
"I pray you do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."