18 Shakespeare Quotes for Finals Week
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18 Shakespeare Quotes for Finals Week

When You Don't Have the Words, the Bard Does

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18 Shakespeare Quotes for Finals Week

Realizing you tried to do way too much this semester

"O foolish youth!
Thou seek'st the greatness that will o'erwhelm thee." - Henry IV (Henry IV Part 2, Act IV Scene V)

And the temptation to give up before you even try sets in

"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail." - Bishop of Carlisle (Richard II, Act III scene II)

Going to a study group and realizing no one is actually studying

"You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing." - Menenius (Coriolanus, Act II Scene I)

When your friend shares their notes

"I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks." - Sebastian (Twelfth Night, Act III Scene III)

Scrolling Netflix to keep the panic at bay

"I like this place.
And willingly could waste my time in it." - Celia (As You Like It, Act II Scene IV)

When asked why you didn't study earlier

"I was in love with my bed." - Speed (The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II Scene i)

Vowing to change all your bad study habits

"Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn’d away my former self." - Henry V (Henry IV Part 2, Act V Scene V)

When you start to think you don't need to study anymore

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man
knows himself to be a fool." - Touchstone (As You Like It, Act V Scene I)

Or on the flip-side, when you start getting overwhelmed by nerves

"Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt." - Lucio (Measure For Measure, Act I Scene IV)

When it turns out you studied all the wrong material

"We are not the first
Who, with best meaning, have incurr’d the worst." - Cordelia (King Lear, Act V Scene III)

Realizing you know literally know none of the answers to these questions

"I am not bound to please thee with my answers." - Shylock (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV Scene I)

Right before you BS your way through the exam

"Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!" - Iachimo (Cymbeline, Act I Scene VI)

When you actually get your BS answer marked right

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so
sometimes by chance." - Autolycus (The Winter's Tale, Act IV Scene IV)

Seeing your annoying classmates/professors for the last time

"I do desire we may be better strangers." - Orlando (As You Like It, Act III Scene II)

When your one friend won't stop bragging about their grades

"Who knows himself a braggart,
Let him fear this, for it will come to pass
that every braggart shall be found an ass." - Parolles (All's Well That Ends Well, Act IV Scene III)

Thinking about how you'll feel if you pass

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much." - Claudio (Much Ado About Nothing, Act II Scene I)

Thinking about how you'll feel if you fail

"You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those." - Richard (Richard II, Act IV Scene I)

Knowing that either way, at least finals is over

"O, that a man might know
The end of this day’s business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known.
" - Brutus (Julius Caesar, Act V Scene I)


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