Act i Quotes
108 quotes
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
"The thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
"I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows."
"All lost! to prayers, to prayers! All lost!"
"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground — long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death."
"From the still-vex'd Bermoothes."
"In following him, I follow but myself."
"Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."
"Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."
"Thus do I ever make my fool my purse."
"Nothing can<!--will?--> come of nothing: speak again."
"Come not between the dragon and his wrath."
"Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself."
"Now, gods, stand up for bastards!"
"We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves."
"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!"
"Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink."
"There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd."
"This grief is crowned with consolation."
"Eternity was in our lips and eyes."
"Antony, leave thy lascivious wassails."
"Give me to drink mandragora."
"In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach."
"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
"The very pink of perfection."
"The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly."
"I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon."
"Service is no heritage."
"He must needs go, that the devil drives."
"My friends were poor, but honest."
"He was ever precise in promise-keeping."
"I hold you as a thing ensky’d and sainted."
"I burn, I pine, I perish."
"Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal."
"I am sure care's an enemy to life."
"I have them at my fingers' ends."
"Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before 'em?"
"Is it a world to hide virtues in?"
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage..."
"We will draw the curtain, and show you the picture."
"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
"He was more than over-shoes in love."
"The worst Lord of thy presence, and no land beside."
"Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age’s tooth."
"Fay: The Ten Commandments. She was a great believer in some of them."
"Fay: Your explanation had the ring of truth about it.. Naturally I disbelieved every word."
"Mrs Prentice: Have you taken up transvestism? I'd no idea our marriage teetered on the edge of fashion."
"Rance: How shocking! His abnormal condition has driven him to seek refuge in religion. Always the last ditch stand of a man on the brink of disaster."
"Prentice: This appalling situation is the result of my lax moral code. It's clean living and Teach Yourself Woodwork for me from now on!"
"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."
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