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“Yet looks he like a king. Behold, his eye,
As bright as is the eagle's lightens forth
Controlling majesty.”
Royalty Quotes 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.”
Royalty Quotes 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.”
Royalty Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at V, iii)
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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.”
Ceremony Quotes 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?”
Ceremony Quotes 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?”
Ceremony Quotes 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?”
Ceremony Quotes 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.”
Ceremony Quotes 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.”
Ceremony Quotes Source: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at III, iv)
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“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.”
Courtiers Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii)
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“His nature is too noble for the world.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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“This was the noblest Roman of them all.
All the conspirators save only he
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;
He, only in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.”
Nobility Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at V, v)
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“Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.”
Treachery Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar at III, i)
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“To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master
And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.”
Treachery Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at V, vii)
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“Thou know'st, great son,
The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,
Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
Destroyed his country; and his name remains
To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.
Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,
To imitate the graces of the gods;
To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,
And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt
That should rive an oak.”
Treason Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at V, iii)
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“Though those that are betrayed
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.”
Treason Quotes Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)
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“And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
And dressed myself in such humility
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths
Even in the presence of the crowned king.”
Treason Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry)
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“Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;
For treason is but trusted like the fox,
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up,
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.”
Treason Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Worcester at V, ii)
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“Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.”
Treason Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Lancaster at IV, ii)
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“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.”
Treason Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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“Know my name is lost,
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit;
Yet am I noble as the adversary
I come to cope.”
Treason Quotes Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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“Treason and murder ever kept together,
As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
Working so grossly in a natural cause
That admiration did not whoop at them;
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in
Wonder to wait on treason and on murder;
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was
That wrought upon thee so preposterously
Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”
Treason Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at II, ii)
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“Thou art a traitor.
Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear
I will not dine until I see the same.”
Treason Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, iv)
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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.”
Satisfaction Quotes 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.”
Satisfaction Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i)
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