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There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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'Tis gold
Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up
This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold
Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief,
Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten at II, iii)
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What, shall one of us,
That struck for the foremost man of all this world
But for supporting robbers--shall we now
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,
And sell the mighty space of our large honors
For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Topic: Bribery
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none
Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.
Topic: Bribery
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns.
The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Thou know'st, being stopped, impatiently doth rage;
But when his fair course is not hindered,
He makes sweet music with th' enameled stones,
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge,
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage.
And so by many winding nooks he strays
With willing sport to the wild ocean.
Then let me go and hinder not my course.
I'll be as patient as a gentle stream
And make a pastime of each weary step,
Till the last step have brought me to my love;
And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil
A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
Topic: Brooks
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at II, vii)
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Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh
And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe,
But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?
Topic: Butchering
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Warwick at III, ii)
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Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell
bullocks.
Topic: Butchering
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, i)
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Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
Topic: Calumny
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Laertes at I, III)
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.
Topic: Calumny
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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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: Calumny
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.
Topic: Calumny
Source: The Winter's Tale (Leontes at II, i)
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O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
With pity that doth make me sick.
Topic: Cause
Source: Cymbeline (Iachimo at I, vi)
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Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Topic: Cause
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii)
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Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!
Topic: Cause
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at V, i)
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Mine's not an idle cause.
Topic: Cause
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Brabantio at I, ii)
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Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Topic: Censure
Source: None
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Ever note, Lucilius,
When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;
But when they should endure the bloody spur,
They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades
Sink in the trial.
Topic: Ceremony
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, ii)
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And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony?
What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more
Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?
Topic: Ceremony
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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O Ceremony, show me but thy worth?
What is thy soul of adoration?
Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form,
Creating awe and fear in other men?
Topic: Ceremony
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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What infinite heart's-ease
Must kings neglect that private men enjoy!
And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
Topic: Ceremony
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, i)
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Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first
To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none.
Topic: Ceremony
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at I, ii)
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To feed were best at home;
From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony:
Meeting were bare without it.
Topic: Ceremony
Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv)
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It is religion to be thus forsworn,
For charity itself fulfills the law
And who can never love from charity?
Topic: Charity
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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Lady, you know no rules of charity,
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.
Topic: Charity
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, ii)
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Mine honor's such a ring;
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ancestors,
Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world
In me to lose.
Topic: Chastity
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Diana at IV, ii)
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A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
Topic: Chastity
Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, iv)
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The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!
Topic: Chastity
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't
Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her
As chaste as unsunned snow.
Topic: Chastity
Source: Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v)
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Had she been light, like you,
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,
She might ha' been a grandam ere she died;
And so may you, for a light heart lives long.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Katharine at V, ii)
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Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me.
Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am
To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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He makes a July's day short as December,
And with his varying childness cures in me
Thoughts that would thick my blood.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he
were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not
justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
Topic: Cheerfulness
Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Topic: Children / Youth
Source: None
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
Topic: Choice
Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at I, ii)
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. To take the widow
Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;
And hardly shall I carry out my side,
Her husband being alive.
Topic: Choice
Source: King Lear (Edmund at V, i)
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I will not choose what many men desire,
Because I will not jump with common spirits
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
Topic: Choice
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Arragon at II, ix)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to th's first.
Topic: Choice
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Preferment goes by letter and affection.
Topic: Choice
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)
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Therefore, friends,
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ--
Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross
We are impressed and engaged to fight--
Fourthwith a power of English shall we levy,
Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb
To chase these pagans in those holy fields
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed
For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Topic: Christ
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry at I, i)
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Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other's happiness,
May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction
Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (Isabel, Queen of France at V, ii)
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O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others!
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Shylock at I, iii)
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The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Antonio at I, iii)
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O Lorenzo,
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife!
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at II, iii)
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I never heard a passion so confused,
So strange, outrageous, and so variable
As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!'
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Solanio at II, viii)
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He tells me flatly there's no mercy for me in heaven because I am
a Jew's daughter; and he says you are no good member of the
commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the
price of pork.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Jessica at III, v)
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This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs; if we
grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on
the coals for money.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at III, v)
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It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Evans at I, i)
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A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--
To pray for them that have done scathe to us.
Topic: Christianity
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Rivers at I, iii)
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Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an
ordinary man has.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Andrew at I, iii)
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At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
Topic: Christmas
Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at I, i)
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