Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare [65]
pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath appeased.
Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4.
PLAYERS.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
As You Like It -- II. 7.
There be players, that I have seen play,-- and heard others praise, and that highly,-- not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Hamlet -- III. 2.
POMP.
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
King Henry V. Part 3d -- V. 2.
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a bare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.
The Merchant of Venice -- I. 2.
PRINCES AND TITLES.
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: So that, between their titles, and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
King Richard III. -- I. 4.
QUARRELS.
In a false quarrel these is no true valor.
Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
King Henry VI., Part 2d -- III. 2.
RAGE.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Othello -- II. 3.
REPENTANCE.
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours give leisure to repent.
King Richard III. -- IV. 4.
REPUTATION.
The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is--spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest I-- a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
King Richard II. -- I. 1.
RETRIBUTION.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.
King Lear -- V. S.
If these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God.
King Henry V. -- IV. 1.
SCARS.
A sear nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honor.
All's Well that Ends Well -- IV. 6.
To such as boasting show their scars, A mock is due.
Troilus and Cressida -- IV. 5.
SELF-CONQUEST.
Better conquest never can'st thou make, Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts Against those giddy loose suggestions.
King John -- III. 1.
SELF-EXERTION.
Men at some time are masters of their fates; The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves.
Julius Caesar -- I. 2.
SELF-RELIANCE.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
All's Well that Ends Well -- I. 1.
SILENCE.
Out of this silence, yet I picked a welcome; And in the modesty of fearful duty I read as much, as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Midsummer Night's Dream
Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4.
PLAYERS.
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
As You Like It -- II. 7.
There be players, that I have seen play,-- and heard others praise, and that highly,-- not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Hamlet -- III. 2.
POMP.
Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
King Henry V. Part 3d -- V. 2.
PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a bare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.
The Merchant of Venice -- I. 2.
PRINCES AND TITLES.
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: So that, between their titles, and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
King Richard III. -- I. 4.
QUARRELS.
In a false quarrel these is no true valor.
Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
King Henry VI., Part 2d -- III. 2.
RAGE.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
Othello -- II. 3.
REPENTANCE.
Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours give leisure to repent.
King Richard III. -- IV. 4.
REPUTATION.
The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is--spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest I-- a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
King Richard II. -- I. 1.
RETRIBUTION.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.
King Lear -- V. S.
If these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God.
King Henry V. -- IV. 1.
SCARS.
A sear nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honor.
All's Well that Ends Well -- IV. 6.
To such as boasting show their scars, A mock is due.
Troilus and Cressida -- IV. 5.
SELF-CONQUEST.
Better conquest never can'st thou make, Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts Against those giddy loose suggestions.
King John -- III. 1.
SELF-EXERTION.
Men at some time are masters of their fates; The fault is not in our stars, But in ourselves.
Julius Caesar -- I. 2.
SELF-RELIANCE.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
All's Well that Ends Well -- I. 1.
SILENCE.
Out of this silence, yet I picked a welcome; And in the modesty of fearful duty I read as much, as from the rattling tongue Of saucy and audacious eloquence.
Midsummer Night's Dream