Tag: Histories

  • October 16

    Shame


    Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;
    For ’tis thy presence that exhales this blood
    From cold and empty veins.

    –Richard III,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • October 10

    Bad as Them


    If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb,
    is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you,
    be an ass and a fool and a prating coxcomb?
    In your own conscience now?

    -Henry V, 
    Act IV, Scene i

  • October 9

    Birds of a Feather


    I scorn you, scurvy companion.

    -Henry IV Part 2,
    Act II, Scene iv

  • October 6

    Taunt


    And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.
    Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.

    -Henry VI Part 3,
    Act I, Scene iv

  • October 3

    Wasted


    I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

    –Richard II,
    Act V, Scene v

  • October 1

    Precarious


    O, how wretched
    Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours!

    –Henry VIII, 
    Act III, Scene ii

  • September 17

    September 17

    Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
    For villany is not without such rheum;
    And he, long traded in it, makes it seem
    Like rivers of remorse and innocency.