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And in the morn and liquid dew of youth,
Contagious blastments are are most imminent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at I, iii)
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Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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Give thy thoughts no tongue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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Springes to catch woodcocks.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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Leave her to Heaven,
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, v)
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For murder though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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Still harping on my daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at II, ii)
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And with them words of so sweet breath composed
As made the things more rich.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment,
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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'Tis too much proved,--that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
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With devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at III, i)
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Here's metal more attractive.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at III, iv)
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For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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I must be cruel only to be kind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat
Of habit's devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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Diseases, desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, iii)
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, v)
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When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, V)
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One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
So fast they follow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Gertrude, Queen of Denmark at IV, vii)
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Lay her in the earth,
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at V, i)
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For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Ulysses at III, iii)
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The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at IV, v)
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If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as
he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Casca at I, ii)
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not is our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Men at some times are masters of their fates.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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'Tis meet
That noble minds keep ever with their likes:
For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, iii)
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It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i)
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Caesar at II, ii)
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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Caesar at II, ii)
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Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, i)
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Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cinna at III, iii)
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at IV, iii)
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A friend should bear a friend's infirmities.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at IV, iii)
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And we must take the current when it serves;
Or lose our ventures.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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