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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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
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.
Topic: Treason
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, iv)
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
Topic: Trouble
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i)
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Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
Topic: Trout
Source: Measure for Measure (Pompey at I, ii)
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Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be caught with
tickling.
Topic: Trout
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at II, v)
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
Topic: Trust
Source: None
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She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down
And rest your gentle head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth you
And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep,
Charming your brood with pleasing heaviness,
Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep
As is the difference betwixt day and night
The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team
Begins his golden progress in the east.
Topic: Twilight
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Glendower at III, i)
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His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
Topic: Tyranny
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Queen Margaret at III, iii)
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Bleed, bleed, poor Country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs,
The title is affeered!
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
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O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
Since that the truest issue of thy throne
By his own interdiction stands accursed
And does blaspheme his breed?
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Macbeth (Macduff at IV, iii)
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This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest; you have loved him well;
He hath not touched you yet.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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But thou know'st this,
'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years;
And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,
That I should open to the list'ning air
How many worthy princes' bloods were shed
To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,
To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms
And make pretense of wrong that I have done him;
When all, for mine, if I may call offense,
Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence;
Which love to all, of which thyself art one,
Who now reproved'st me for't--
Topic: Tyranny
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
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For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One raised in blood and one in blood established;
One that made means to come by what he hath,
And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
One that hath ever been God's enemy.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richmond at V, iii)
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.
Topic: Uncertainty
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, iii)
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The houses he makes last till doomsday.
Topic: Undertakers
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i)
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So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet an union in partition--
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Topic: Unity
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at III, ii)
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O Regan, she hath tied
Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: King Lear (King Lear at II, iv)
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Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at IV, ii)
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In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind.
Topic: Unkindness
Source: Twelfth night, or, What You Will (Antonio at III, iv)
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The better part of valour is discretion.
Topic: Valor
Source: None
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Hoy-day!
What a sweep of vanity comes this way!
Topic: Vanity
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)
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Methinks I am a prophet new inspired
And thus, expiring, do foretell of him:
His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,
For violent fires soon burn out themselves;
Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short;
He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;
With eager feeding doth choke the feeder;
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Topic: Vanity
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i)
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Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity
(So it be new, there's no respect how vile)
That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?
Topic: Vanity
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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There are grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in
concealing it.
Topic: Vanity
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (York at II, i)
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The rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance.
Topic: Vengeance
Source: None
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The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
Topic: Vice
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.
Topic: Vice
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.
Topic: Vice
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!
Topic: Vice
Source: Sonnet XCV
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O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd.
Treachery! seek it out.
Topic: Villainy
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.
Topic: Villainy
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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Villain and he be many miles asunder.
Topic: Villainy
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.
Topic: Villainy
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at I, iii)
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These violent delights have violent ends.
Topic: Violence
Source: None
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Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?
Topic: Violets
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Duchess of York at V, ii)
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It had a dying fall;
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odor.
Topic: Violets
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at I, i)
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Assume a virtue if you have it not.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
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Our revels are now ended. These our actors
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Is rounded with a sleep.
Topic: Visions
Source: The Tempest (Prospero at IV, i)
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I thank you for your voices, thank you!
Your most sweet voices! Now you have left your voices,
I have no further with you.
Topic: Voice
Source: Coriolanus (Third Citizen at II, iii)
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Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.
Topic: Voice
Source: King Lear (King Lear at V, iii)
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I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of
their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us;
but I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently
as any suckling dove; I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.
Topic: Voice
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii)
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'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
Topic: Vow
Source: None
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It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.
Topic: Vow
Source: None
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Men's vows are women's traitors!
Topic: Vow
Source: None
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