A most unspotted lily shall she pass
To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.
_King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 5._
I have had my labour for my travail.[101-3]
_Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 1._
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy.[102-1]
_Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3._
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3._
Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 2._
The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3._
All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet
reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the
perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of
one.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3._
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3._
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3._
And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Be shook to air.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3._
His heart and hand both open and both free;
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5._
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
_Troilus and Cressida. Act iv. Sc. 5._
Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than
thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for
their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.
_Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3._
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
_Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1._
A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't.[103-1]
_Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Many-headed multitude.[103-2]
_Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3._
I thank you for your voices: thank you:
Your most sweet voices.
_Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3._
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute "shall"?
_Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Enough, with over-measure.
_Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1._
His nature is too noble for the world:
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for 's power to thunder.
_Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1._
That it shall hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war.
_Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2._
_Serv._ Where dwellest thou?
_Cor._ Under the canopy.
_Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5._
A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,
And harsh in sound to thine.
_Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5._
Chaste as the icicle
That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple.
_Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3._
If you have writ your annals true, 't is there
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it. Boy!
_Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 6._[103-3]
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
_Titus Andronicus. Act i. Sc. 2._
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;
She is a woman, therefore may be won;
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.
What, man! more water glideth by the mill
Than wots the miller of;[104-1] and easy it is
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.
_Titus Andronicus. Act ii. Sc. 1._
The eagle suffers little birds to sing.
_Titus Andronicus. Act iv. Sc. 4._
The weakest goes to the wall.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
An hour before the worshipp'd sun
Peered forth the golden window of the east.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
As is the bud bit with an envious worm
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
Saint-seducing gold.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1._
One fire burns out another's burning,
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.[104-2]
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 2._
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 3._
For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4._
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you!
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4._
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4._
Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon
Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4._
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 4._
For you and I are past our dancing days.[105-1]
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5._
It seems she hangs[105-2] upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5._
Shall have the chinks.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5._
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 5._
Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,
When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 1._
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-3]
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-4]
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-4]
What 's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-4]
For stony limits cannot hold love out.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-4]
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[105-4]
At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.[106-1]
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
_Rom._ Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear,
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--
_Jul._ O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
The god of my idolatry.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say, "It lightens."
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2._[106-2]
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 3._
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 3._
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 3._
Stabbed with a white wench's black eye.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
The courageous captain of complements.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
One, two, and the third in your bosom.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
I am the very pink of courtesy.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will
speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
My man 's as true as steel.[107-1]
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 4._
These violent delights have violent ends.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 6._
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 6._
Here comes the lady! O, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 6._
Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1._
A word and a blow.[107-2]
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1._
A plague o' both your houses!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1._
_Rom._ Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
_Mer._ No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 't is enough, 't will serve.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 1._
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3._
They may seize
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand
And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3._
The damned use that word in hell.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3._
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3._
Taking the measure of an unmade grave.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 3._
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5._
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5._
All these woes shall serve
For sweet discourses in our time to come.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5._
Villain and he be many miles asunder.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5._
Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iii. Sc. 5._
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act iv. Sc. 2._
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
I do remember an apothecary,--
And hereabouts he dwells.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
Meagre were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
A beggarly account of empty boxes.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
Famine is in thy cheeks.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
_Ap._ My poverty, but not my will, consents.
_Rom._ I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
The strength
Of twenty men.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1._
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.
_Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 3._
Her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
_Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Sc. 3._
Beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
_Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Sc. 3._
Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace!
_Romeo and Juliet, Act v. Sc. 3._
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Leaving no tract behind.
_Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 1._
Here 's that which is too weak to be a sinner,--honest water,
which ne'er left man i' the mire.
_Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 2._
Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;
I pray for no man but myself;
Grant I may never prove so fond,
To trust man on his oath or bond.
_Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 2._
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
_Timon of Athens. Act i. Sc. 2._
Every room
Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy.
_Timon of Athens. Act ii. Sc. 2._
'T is lack of kindly warmth.
_Timon of Athens. Act ii. Sc. 2._
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.
_Timon of Athens. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
_Timon of Athens. Act iii. Sc. 5._
We have seen better days.
_Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 2._
Are not within the leaf of pity writ.
_Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3._
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing 's a thief.
_Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3._
Life's uncertain voyage.
_Timon of Athens. Act v. Sc. 1._
As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 1._
The live-long day.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 1._
Beware the ides of March.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
"Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Ye gods, it doth amaze me
A man of such a feeble temper should
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Conjure with 'em,--
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Cæsar feed,
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd
The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome
As easily as a king.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
That could be moved to smile at anything.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.
_Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2._
'T is a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost[111-1] round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The Genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
A dish fit for the gods.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;
Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:
Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,
Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
With an angry wafture of your hand,
Gave sign for me to leave you.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
You are my true and honourable wife,
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops[112-1]
That visit my sad heart.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2._
These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2._
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2._
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
_Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 2._
_Cæs._ The ides of March are come.
_Sooth._ Ay, Cæsar; but not gone.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Et tu, Brute!
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
The choice and master spirits of this age.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Though last, not least in love.[113-1]
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause, and be
silent that you may hear.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Who is here so base that would be a bondman?
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
But yesterday the word of Cæsar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
See what a rent the envious Casca made.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Great Cæsar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
I only speak right on.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
Put a tongue
In every wound of Cæsar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2._
When love begins to sicken and decay,
It useth an enforced ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 2._
You yourself
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
The foremost man of all this world.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
I said, an elder soldier, not a better:
Did I say "better"?
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?
When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts:
Dash him to pieces!
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
All his faults observed,
Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And nature must obey necessity.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
_Brutus._ Then I shall see thee again?
_Ghost._ Ay, at Philippi.
_Brutus._ Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.
_Julius Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3._
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1._
Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made.
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1._
O, that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1._
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 3._
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 5._
His life was gentle, and the elements
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
_Julius Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 5._
_1 W._ When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
_2 W._ When the hurlyburly 's done,
When the battle 's lost and won.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1._
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1._
Banners flout the sky.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 2._
Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Dwindle, peak, and pine.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on 't?
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Stands not within the prospect of belief.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
The earth hath bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
The insane root
That takes the reason prisoner.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's
In deepest consequence.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature. Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Nothing is
But what is not.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3._
Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 't were a careless trifle.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4._
There 's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4._
More is thy due than more than all can pay.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4._
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5._
What thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5._
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.
_Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5._