There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure;
but security enough to make fellowships accurst:
much upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world.
This news is old enough, yet it is every day’s news.
-Measure for Measure,
Act III, Scene ii
Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!
-Henry VI Part 1,
Act II, Scene iv
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o’ the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air.
–Coriolanus,
Act III, Scene iii
I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.
-Titus Andronicus,
Act V Scene i
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
-Richard III,
Act IV, Scene ii
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,
That I might love thee something.
-Timon of Athens,
Act IV, Scene iii
I am sick when I do look on thee.
-A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Act II, Scene i
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