Quotes
Quotes - Shakespeare
Makes a swan-like end,
Fading in music.
Tell me where is fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourished?
Reply, reply.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being season'd with a gracious voice
Obscures the show of evil?
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue in his outward parts.
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.
An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn.
Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
That ever blotted paper!
The kindest man,
The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit
In doing courtesies.
Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.
Let it serve for table-talk.
A harmless necessary cat.
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground.
I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!
Is it so nominated in the bond?
'T is not in the bond.
Speak me fair in death.
An upright judge, a learned judge!
A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.
You take my house when you do take the prop
That doth sustain my house; you take my life
When you do take the means whereby I live.
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
