OEDIPUS REX-tis not in mortal to avert their dooms.-The man of all men best in adversity

And wisest in the ways of God-No man in the world

Can make the gods do more than god will-I pray to God

Whether it be a lurking thief, or one of a numberI pray that man’s life be consumed in evil and wretchness

-Having the power that he held before meHaving his bed, begetting children there

Upon his wife, as he would have, had he livedTheir son would have been my children brother’s

If Laius had had luck in fatherhood-You sightless, witless, senseless, mad old man

-What a wicked old man you are! You’d try a stone’sPatience!

-There is no one hereWho will not curse you soon, as you curse me-I tell you, no man that walks upon the earthShall be rooted out more horribly than you

-You do not know me; but the city knows me,And in its eyes I am just, if not in yours.

-This is what prophets and prophecies are worth!Have no dread of them

-If I was created so, born to this fate.Who could deny the savagery of God?

-Where oracles are concerned.I would not waste a second thought on any

-Leave this woman to brag of her royal name-Double fruit of her wedding

A husband by her husband, children by her child-…no more

No more shall you look on the misery about me,The horror of my own doing

-Apollo, Apollo what he done to me,He brought my sick, sick fate upon me

But the blinding hand was my own!-What life?

If only I had died,This weight of monstrous doom

Could not have dragged me and my darlings down-You were better dead than alive and blind

-If I had eyes,I do not know how I could bear the sight

Of my father, when I come to the house of Death,Or my mother for I have sinned against them both

So vilely that I could not make any peaceBy strangling my own life.

-No_For the love of god, conceal meSomewhere far from Thebes, or kill me; or hurl me

Into the sea, away from men’s eyes for ever.-Men of Thebes look upon Oedipus

This is the king who solved the famous riddleAnd towered up, most powerful of men.

No mortal eyes but looked on him with envy,Yet in the end ruin swept over him

- He is forbiddenShelter, intercourse with any man

Expelled from every house, unclean, accursed,In accordance with the word of Pythian oracle.

-and yet riddle was not be solvedBut_i_came,

The simple Oedipus;_I_ stopped her mouth

By mother wit, untaught of auguries”

IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST-if u want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they’ll kill you.

-life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”-When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. Jack, Act 1.

-I thought you had come up for pleasure, i call that business.” Algernon Act1-“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why,

one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I’ll certainly try to forget the fact.”

-I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. Jack, Act 1.

-I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked. Jack, Act 2-Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Jack, Act 3-I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Ernest. Jack, Act 3

-To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness. Lady Bracknell-I don't play accurately - anyone can play accurately - but I play with wonderful expression. Algernon, Act 1.

-Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? Algernon,-Divorces are made in Heaven. Algernon, Act 1.

-Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. Algernon, Act 1.-More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Algernon, Act 1.

-The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Algernon, -The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public. .Algernon

-In married life three is company and two is none. Algernon, Act 1.-I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Lady Bracknell, Act 1.

-Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. Algernon,

-All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Algernon, Act 1.-The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain. Algernon, Act 1.

-If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. Algernon, Act 2.-A man who is much talked about is always very attractive. One feels there must be something in him, after all. Cecily, Act 2.

-I think that whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid. Cecily, Act 2.-In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing. Gwendolen, Act 3.

-To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. Lady Bracknell, Act 3.

-This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. Gwendolen, Act-Shallow mask of manner…Cecily

DR FAUTUS“Ah, Christ, my Saviour/Seek to save distressed Faustus’ soul!”

“Where art thou, Faustus? Wretch, what hast thou done?Damned art thou, Faustus, damned; despair and die!”

“Ah, Faustus.Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,

And then thou must be damned perpetually!”“Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?

And burnt the topless towers of Ileum?“Had I as many souls as there be stars,I’d give them all for Mephistopheles”.Nothing so sweet as magic is to him

Which he prefers before his chiefest bliss (4)“The end of physic is our body’s health.

Why Faustus hast thou not achieved that end?” (4)“When all is done, divinity is best.” (5)

“What will be, shall be. Divinity adieu!” (5)“These metaphysics of magicians and negromantic books are heavenly.” (6)”

“How pliant is this Mephostophilis, Full of obedience and humility. Such is the force of magic….” (13)“I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere or the ocean to

overwhelm the world.” (13)“Tell me, where is the place that men call hell?” (22)

Faustus is gone! Regard his hellish fall,Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise

Only to wonder at unlawful things:

Whose deepness doth entice such forward witsTo practice more than heavenly power permits.

-All places shall be hell that is not heaven-O God, if thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,

-Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years,A hundred thousand, and at last be saved.

- Cursed be the parents that engendered me:No, Faustus, curse thy self, curse Lucifer,

That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.-My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!

- Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer!I’ll burn my books—ah, Mephastophilis!

OTHELOOthello is not 'about' race, or colour, or even jealousy. It dramatizes the way actions are directed by attitudes, fears, and delusions that rule the

subconscious than by evident facts.(Davison, 1988, p.64)-I think the sun where he was born.Drew all such humours from him;

-Have one not easily jealous, but being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme.

-And by how much she tries to do him good,She shall undo her credit with the Moor,

So I will turn her virtue into pitch.-I think this tale would win my daughter too

-And say besides, that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk,Beat a Venetian, and traduced the state,I’ took by the throat the circumcised dog,

And smote him thus, (stabs himself)-But that I love the gentle Desdemona

I would not my unhoused free conditionPut into circumscription and confine

For the sea’s worth.-I look down towards his feet but that’s a fable,

It that than be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee,“Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?”

-The Moor, how be it that I endure him not,Is of a constant, noble, loving nature,

And I dare thing he will prove to DesdemonaA most dear husband.

-I do suspect the lustful Moor.Hath leaped into my seat, the though whereof

Doth like a poisonous mineral gnaw my inwards?And nothing can, nor shall content my soul

Till I am even with him, wife for wife.-Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:She has deceived her father, and may thee-She did deceive her father, marrying you.

“No, my heart is turn’d to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand”.“Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw

The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;For she had eyes, and chose me”.

“No, Iago;I’ll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;

And, on the proof, there is no more but this---Away at once with love or jealousy!”

“O now for everFarewell the tranquil mind! Farewell content!

Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone”.

WINTER TALEWe were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' the sun,And bleat the one at the other: what we changed

Was innocence for innocence; we knew notThe doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed

That any did."'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach."

"Paddling palms, and pinching fingers."-Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.