- Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 1: "To be, or not to be, that is the question."
- Macbeth's "Is this a dagger I see before me?" soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 1: "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?"
- King Lear's "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!" soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2: "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!"