| Quotes |
Topic |
| Charity | It is religion to be thus forsworn, For charity itself fulfills the law And who can never love from charity? |
| Charity | Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. |
| Chastity | Mine honor's such a ring, My chastity's the jewel of our house, Bequeathed down from many ancestors, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world In me to lose. |
| Chastity | A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously, the very ice of chastity is in them. |
| Chastity | The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria! |
| Chastity | Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have warmed old Saturn--that I thought her As chaste as unsunned snow. |
| Cheerfulness | Had she been light, like you, Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, She might ha' been a grandam ere she died, And so may you, for a light heart lives long. |
| Cheerfulness | Pluck up thy spirits, look cheerfully upon me. Here, love, thou seest how diligent I am To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee. |
| Cheerfulness | He makes a July's day short as December, And with his varying childness cures in me Thoughts that would thick my blood. |
| Cheerfulness | As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. |
| Children | It is a wise father that knows his own child. |
| Choice | If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently, For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death. |
| Choice | Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed, If both remain alive. To take the widow Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril, And hardly shall I carry out my side, Her husband being alive. |
| Choice | I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. |
| Choice | Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. |
| Choice | Preferment goes by letter and affection. |
| Christianity | O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect The thoughts of others! |
| Christianity | The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind. |
| Christianity | O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, Become a Christian and thy loving wife! |
| Christianity | I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable As the dog Jew did utter in the streets, 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!' |
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