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More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Duchess of York at IV, iv)
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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If music be the food of love, play on.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Duke at I, i), (altered)
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I am sure care's an enemy to life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Tony Belch at I, iii)
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'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at I, v)
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She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought;
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at II, iv)
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon 'em.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Malvalio at II, v)
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i)
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Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, i)
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I hate ingratitude more in man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at III, iv)
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A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Duke at V, i)
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Thus the whirligig of time
Brings in his revenges.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Clown at V, i)
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Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii)
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Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Lucetta at I, ii)
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They do not love that do not show their love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at I, ii), also see Heywood Proverbs, pt. II, ch. IX
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O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at I, iii)
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One heat another heat expels.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, iv)
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A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at III, i)
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But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at III, i)
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The hair that covers the wit is more than the wit, for the
greater hides the less.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Launce at III, i)
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By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
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How use doth breed a habit in a man!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valenine at V, iv)
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Our praises are our wages.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at I, ii)
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The silence often of pure innocence
Persuades, when speaking fails.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Paulina at II, ii)
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What's gone, and what's past help,
Should be past grieve.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Paulina at III, ii)
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Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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Fear not the future, weep not for the past.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind;
The foul cubs like their parents are.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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As wither'd roses yield a late perfume.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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So sweetly she bade me adieu,
I thought that she bade me return.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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Sceptre and crown must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: The Winter's Tale (Autolycus at IV, iv)
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I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'
Topic: Proverbs (General)
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at I, v)
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Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.
Topic: Purity
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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I bought an unction of a mountebank,
So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
Where it draws blood so cataplasm so rare,
Collected from all simples that have virtue
Under the moon, can save the thing from death
That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point
With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
It may be death.
Topic: Quackery
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at IV, vii)
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Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves
quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly
transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the
primitive statue and oblique memorial of cockolds; a thrifty
shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg, to what
form but that he is should wit larded with malice and malice
forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing; he is both
ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To
be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a
puttock, or a herring without roe, I would not care; but to be
Memelaus! I would conspire against destiny.
Topic: Quail
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Thersites at V, i)
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To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them. Hamlet
Topic: Questions
Source: None
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But when I came, alas, to wive,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.
Topic: Rain
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at V, i)
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Come, the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.
Topic: Ravens
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements.
Topic: Ravens
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at I, v)
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Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.
Topic: Ravens
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i)
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Did ever raven sing so like a lark
That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
Topic: Ravens
Source: Titus Andronicus (Titus at III, i)
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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,
Meeting the check of such another day;
And since this business so fair is done,
Let us not leave till all our own be won.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, iv)
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Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith.
Topic: Rebellion
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Melun at V, iv)
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My desolation does begin to make
A better life.
Topic: Reform
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
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If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate;
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Greater than that.
Topic: Remorse
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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What then? What rests?
Try what repentance can. What can it not?
Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
O wretched state? O bosom black as death!
O limed soul, that struggling to be free
Art more engaged!
Topic: Repentance
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at III, iii)
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Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking.
I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no
strength to repent.
Topic: Repentance
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at III, iii)
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Under your good correction, I have seen
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
Topic: Repentance
Source: Measure for Measure (Provost at II, ii)
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