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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
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Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from breaks of ice, and answer none,
And some condemned for a fault alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Escalus at II, i)
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But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope:
I have hope to live, and am prepared to die.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Claudio at III, i)
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The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
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The sense of death is most in apprehension.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at III, i)
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Craft against vice I must apply.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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They say, best men are moulded out of faults.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Measure for Measure (Mariana at V, i)
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Let me play the fool;
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at I, i)
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My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, i)
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In a bondsman's key,
With bated breath and whispering humbleness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
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Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
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Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
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The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
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Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
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He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)
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In the end truth will out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii)
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What a beard hast thou got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin
than Dobbin my thill-horse has on his tail.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gobbo at II, ii)
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Fast bind, fast find--
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at II, v)
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Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii), (altered)
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Young in limbs, in judgment old.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii)
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How many cowards whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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It is engendered in the eyes;
By gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at III, ii), a song
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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So may the outward shows be least themselves;
The world is still deceived with ornament.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being seasoned with a gracious voice,
Obscures the show of evil? In religion,
What damned error but some sober brow
Will bless it and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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There is no vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i)
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A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
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I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
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Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at IV, i)
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We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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What! would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at IV, i)
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How far that little candle throws its beams;
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at V, i)
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For 'tis not good that children should know any wickedness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly at II, ii)
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Marry, this is the short and the long of it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Quickly at II, ii)
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Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pistol at II, ii)
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
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I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff at III, v)
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Love's mind of judgment rarely hath a taste:
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at I, i)
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And maidens call it--Love in idleness.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lucentio at II, i)
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Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at IV, i)
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Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at II, i)
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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero at III, i)
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Every man can master a grief but he that has it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at III, ii)
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