| Author |
Quotes |
| William Shakespeare | Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. |
| William Shakespeare | Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | This is the third time, I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves, for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | He was ever precise in promise-keeping. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home. -Measure for Measure. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| William Shakespeare | Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| William Shakespeare | Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 4. |
| William Shakespeare | The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| William Shakespeare | Palsied eld. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
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