Act iv Quotes
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"With foreheads villainous low."
"Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed."
"Who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch?"
"A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?"
"There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office."
"The time of universal peace is near."
"The shirt of Nessus is upon me."
"We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women."
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
"Every true man’s apparel fits your thief."
"I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly."
"Thereby hangs a tale."
"As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, That, that is, is."
"A man I am, cross’d with adversity."
"Is she not passing fair?"
"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
"I love a ballad in print a’-life; for then we are sure they are true."
"To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores."
"How now, foolish rheum!"
"We cannot hold mortality’s strong hand."
"Make haste, the better foot before."
"Another lean unwash'd artificer."
"I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, — "I came, saw, and overcame.""
"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."
"Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well."
"For trust not him that hath once broken faith."
"Fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns."
"My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds."
"Small things make base men proud."
"I say it was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up."
"There shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hoop'd pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony, to drink small beer."
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
"Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o’er, should undo a man?"
"And Adam was a gardener."
"Sir, he made a chimney in my father’s house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it."
"Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar-school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face, that thou hast men about thee, that usually talk of a noun, and a verb; and such abominable words, as no Christian ear can endure to hear."
"Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin."
"The cankers of a calm world, and a long peace."
"A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scare-crows. I’ll not march through Coventry with them, that’s flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for, indeed, I had the most of them out of prison. There’s but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins, tacked together, and thrown over the shoulders like an herald’s coat without sleeves."
"Food for powder, food for powder; they’ll fill a pit, as well as better."
"Villain, I have done thy mother."
"Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit."
"The eagle suffers little birds to sing."
"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
"Why, woman, your husband is in his old lines again; he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails against all married mankind; so curses all Eve’s daughters, of what complexion soever."
"I owe him little duty and less love."
"We have seen better days."
"Not within the leaf of pity writ."
"If thou wert the lion, the fox would beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee; if thou wert the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when, peradventure, thou wert accused by the ass; if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a breakfast to the wolf; if thou wert the wolf, thy greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst hazard thy life for thy dinner; wert thou the unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee, and make thine own self the conquest of thy fury; wert thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse; wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the leopard; wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion, and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on thy life; all thy safety were remotion, and thy defence, absence. What beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast? and what beast art thou already, that seest not thy loss in transformation!"
"Tis pitty Love should be so tyrannous."
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