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“Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a
surer measure.”
Temptation Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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“The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.”
Vice Quotes Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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“There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.”
Vice Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Bassanio at III, ii)
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“Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He's more secure to keep it shut than shown;
For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind,
Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself;
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear
To stop the air would hurt them.”
Vice Quotes Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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“O, what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose out thee,
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot
And all things turns to fair that eyes can see!”
Vice Quotes Source: Sonnet XCV
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“O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd.
Treachery! seek it out.”
Villainy Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
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“The learned pate
Ducks to the golden fool. All's obliquy;
There's nothing level in our cursed natures
But direct villainy.”
Villainy Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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“Villain and he be many miles asunder.”
Villainy Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, v)
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“But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,
And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.”
Villainy Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, iii)
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“Are you drawn forth among a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death
Before I be convict by course of law?
To threaten me with death is most unlawful:
I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption
By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]
That you depart, and lay no hands on me.
The deed you undertake is damnable.”
Wickedness Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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“Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two
rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.”
Wickedness Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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“Can it be
That modesty may more betray our sense
Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there?”
Modesty Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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“I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell
And gave him what becomed love I might,
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.”
Modesty Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at IV, ii)
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“O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.”
Innocence Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lysander at II, ii)
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“Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!”
Innocence Quotes Source: The Tempest (Miranda at III, i)
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“We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we changed
Was innocence for innocence; we knew not
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
That any did.”
Innocence Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Polixenes at I, ii)
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“But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush and tyranny
Tremble at patience.”
Innocence Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Hermione at III, ii)
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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.”
Purity Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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“My desolation does begin to make
A better life.”
Reform Quotes Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at V, ii)
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“Did he so often lodge in open field,
In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,
To conquer France, his true inheritance?”
Summer Quotes Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at I, i)
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“These are the forgeries of jealousy;
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”
Summer Quotes Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania at II, i)
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“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Summer Quotes Source: Sonnet XVIII
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“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that lowered upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”
Summer Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, i)
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“Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh.
And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.
By'r Lady, he is a good musician.”
Humor Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at III, i)
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“There's the humour of it.”
Humor Quotes Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (I, i), inserted by Theobald from the quarto
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