Act ii Quotes
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"The moon is down; I have not heard the clock."
"There’s daggers in men’s smiles."
"Ay, sir; where lies that? If ’twere a kibe, ’Twould put me to my slipper; but I feel not This deity in my bosom. Twenty consciences, That stand ’twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon, If he were that which now he’s like—that’s dead, Whom I with this obedient steel, three inches of it, Can lay to bed forever; whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink for aye might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course."
"They will take suggestion as a cat laps milk."
"Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan, I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest; And I the king shall love thee."
"A very ancient and fish-like smell."
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
"I prithee, be my god."
"She never yet was foolish that was fair; For even her folly help'd her to an heir."
"Knavery's plain face is never seen till us'd."
"But men are men; the best sometimes forget:"
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit and lost without deserving."
"Fortune, good-night: smile once more; turn thy wheel!"
"Small to greater matters must give way."
"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation."
"They liked the book the better the more it made them cry."
"Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved."
"I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught."
"They say, miracles are past."
"All the learned and authentic fellows."
"A young man, married, is a man that ’s marr’d."
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?"
"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
"Falling in the flaws of her own youth."
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
"Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?"
"My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour."
"These most brisk and giddy-paced times."
"An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you."
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
"I was in love with my bed."
"And if it please you, so; if not, why, so."
"Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is so, it is so — it hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in it, is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on't! There 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister; for, look you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. — no, the dog is himself, and I am the dog — O, the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: Father, your blessing. Now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father — well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that shoe could speak now, like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her — why, there 'tis: here's my mother's breath up and down. Now come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears."
"A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off."
"For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy."
"For courage mounteth with occasion."
"Hal: God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes."
"Truscott: How dare you involve me in a situation for which no memo has been issued."
"McLeavy: I'm innocent. (A little unsure of himself, the beginnings of panic) Doesn't that mean anything to you?"
"I’ll tickle your catastrophe."
"He hath eaten me out of house and home."
"Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Whitsun-week."
"I do now remember the poor creature, small beer."
"Let the end try the man."
"Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us."
"I beseek you now, aggravate your choler."
"The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on."
"The common people swarm like summer flies."
"How irksome is this music to my heart! When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?"
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