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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!”
Reputation Quotes 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.”
Reputation Quotes 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.”
Reputation Quotes 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.”
Reputation Quotes 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.”
Reputation Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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“I will be gone,
That pitiful rumor may report my flight
To consolate thine ear.”
Rumor Quotes 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.”
Rumor Quotes 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.”
Rumor Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Rumor at induction)
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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.”
Scandal Quotes Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 1,004)
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“I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy
tidings.”
Talk Quotes Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
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“What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?”
Talk Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Austria at II, i)
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“If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.”
Talk Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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“The red wine first must rise
In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em
Talk us to silence.”
Talk Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Sandys at I, iv)
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“No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;
Then howsome'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
I shall digest it.”
Talk Quotes Source: The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo at III, v)
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“Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!”
Talk Quotes Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at IV, i)
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“Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's tongue shakes out
his master's undoing.”
Tongue Quotes Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Lavatch at II, iv)
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“Tongues I'll hang on every tree
That shall civil sayings show. . . .”
Tongue Quotes Source: As You Like It (Celia at III, ii)
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“I cannot, nor I will not hold me still;
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.”
Tongue Quotes Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at IV, ii)
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“You play the spaniel,
And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.”
Tongue Quotes Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at V, iii)
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“So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication prompt and reason strong,
For his advantage still did wake and sleep.
To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,
He had the dialect and different skill,
Catching all passions in his craft of will; . . .”
Tongue Quotes Source: A Lover's Complaint (l. 120)
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“The language I have learnt these forty years,
My native English, now I must forgo;
And now my tongue's use is to me no more
Than an unstringed viol or a harp,
Or like a cunning instrument cased up
Or, being open, put into his hands
That knows no touch to tune the harmony.”
Tongue Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Mowbray at I, iii)
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“All swol'n with chafing, down Adonis sits,
Banning his boist'rous and unruly beast;
And now the happy season once more fits
That lovesick Love by pleading may be blest;
For lovers say the heart hath treble wrong
When it is barred the aidance of the tongue.”
Tongue Quotes Source: Venus and Adonis (l. 325)
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“And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but
to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.”
Listening Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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“And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.”
Listening Quotes Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio at IV, i)
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“The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your
lordship.”
Swallows Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Second Friend at III, vi)
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