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That it may please you leave these sad designs
To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,
And presently repair to Crosby House;
Where--after I have solemnly interred
At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--
And wet his grave with my repentant tears--
I will with all expedient duty see you.
Topic: Repentance
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Antony at III, xi)
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I see my reputation is at stake;
My fame is shrewdly gored.
Topic: Reputation
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Achilles at III, iii)
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O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my
reputation!
Topic: Reputation
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without
merit and lost without deserving.
Topic: Reputation
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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My dear dear lord,
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation. That away,
Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Topic: Reputation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, i)
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Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee.
Topic: Reputation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.
Topic: Reputation
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Topic: Reputation
Source: None
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Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire.
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Topic: Resolution
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at V, i)
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So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
From simple sources, and great seas have dried
When miracles have by the greatest been denied.
Topic: Results
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
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Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent
lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled
o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say 'tis
the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was
never mind own man since.
Topic: Results
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Cade at IV, ii)
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How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell;
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
Topic: Results
Source: King Lear (Albany at I, iv)
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Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Topic: Results
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still;
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Topic: Results
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, ii)
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at IV, v)
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If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Topic: Revenge
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, ii)
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If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
Topic: Revenge
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at III, i)
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O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!
Topic: Revolution
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir
Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a
love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had
the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C,
to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast
like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing,
to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.
Topic: Robins
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed at II, i)
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Topic: Romance
Source: None
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I had rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.
Topic: Rome
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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His legs bestrid the ocean: his reared arm
Crested the world: his voice was propertied
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
He was as rattling thunder.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
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The gates of monarchs
Are arched so high that giants may jet through
And keep their impious turbans on without
Good morrow to the sun.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Cymbeline (Belarius at III, iii)
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There's such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Claudius, King of Denmark at IV, v)
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Topic: Royalty
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.
Topic: Royalty
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Richard, Duke of Gloucester at IV, vii)
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Ay, every inch a king.
Topic: Royalty
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!
There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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At length her grace rose and with modest paces
Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like
Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;
Then rose again and bowed her to the people;
When by the Archbishop of Canterbury
She had all the royal makings of a queen,
As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,
The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems
Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir
With all the choicest music of the kingdom
Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted
And with the same full state packed back again
To York Place, where the feast is held.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Third Gentleman at IV, i)
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Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is
his own.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,
I have no relish of them, but abound
In the division of each several crime,
Acting in many ways.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at V, i)
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We will ourself in person to this war;
And, for our coffers, with too great a court
And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,
We are enforced to farm our royal realm,
The revenue whereof shall furnish us
For our affairs in hand.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at I, iv)
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For God's sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings!
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--
All murdered; for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life
Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
Comes at the last, and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!
Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood
With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;
For you have but mistook me all this while.
I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,
Need friends. Subjected thus,
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at III, ii)
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Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth
Controlling majesty.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at III, iii)
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I give this heavy weight from off my head
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart.
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown,
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,
With mine own breath release all duty's rites.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at IV, i)
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Why, our battalia trebles that account:
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse faction want.
Topic: Royalty
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will.
Topic: Royalty
Source: None
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I will be gone,
That pitiful rumor may report my flight
To consolate thine ear.
Topic: Rumor
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at III, ii)
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Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.
Topic: Rumor
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Warwick at III, i)
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Rumor is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.
Topic: Rumor
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Rumor at induction)
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Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart.
Topic: Sadness
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, ii)
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It is a pretty mocking of the life.
Topic: Satire
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Painter at I, i)
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He is well paid that is well satisfied,
And I delivering you am satisfied,
And therein do account myself well paid;
My mind was never yet more mercenary.
Topic: Satisfaction
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living.
Satisfaction is death.
Topic: Satisfaction
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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The mightier man, the mightier is the thing
That makes him honored or begets him hate;
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Topic: Scandal
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,004)
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I pray you all,
If you have hitherto concealed this sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still.
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
Give it an understanding but no tongue.
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v)
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