| Quotes |
Topic |
| Appetite | The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. |
| Appetite | The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness. |
| Life | Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more, it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. |
| Appetite | Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? |
| Applause | If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again. |
| Applause | I'll privily away, I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes, Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it. |
| April | Such comfort as do lusty young men feel When well-apparelled April on the heel Of limping Winter treads, even such delight Among fresh fennel buds shall you this night Inherit at my house. |
| Argument | The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |
| Astronomy | My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion. |
| Astronomy | These earthly godfathers of heaven's light, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. |
| Astronomy | There's some ill planet reigns. I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favorable. |
| Authority | Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of authority. |
| Authority | Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'? |
| Authority | Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office. |
| Authority | Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief. |
| Authority | Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven, on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so, yet still 'tis just. |
| Authority | He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold, and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. |
| Ballads | I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. |
| Ballads | I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably. |
| Beetles | To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see, And often, to our comfort, shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full-winged eagle. |
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