The Company You Keep
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
–Comedy of Errors,
Act IV, Scene iii
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
–Comedy of Errors,
Act IV, Scene iii
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,
Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;
Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
—Comedy of Errors,
Act IV, Scene ii
Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English.
—Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act I, Scene iv

There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
–Henry IV Part 1,
Act III, Scene iii
Ye have angels’ faces, but heaven knows your hearts.
–Henry VIII,
Act III, Scene i
Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!
–Twelfth Night,
Act III, Scene ii
His wit’s as thick as a Tewkesbury mustard.
–Henry IV Part 2,
Act II, Scene iv