 |
 |
 |
 |
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words
Since I first called my brother's father...
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!
Source: King...
When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in...
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
Unthread the bold eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith.
That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,
Commodity, the bias of the world.
To gild refin?d gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another...
For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
Source: King John, I. i. (87).
--...
He reads much;
He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men.
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.
For my own part, it was Greek to me.
Source: Julius Caesar, I. i. (288).
--...
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,
But Brutus makes mine greater than they...
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do...
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains...
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Source: Julius Caesar, III. ii....
O! that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come.
Source:...
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Source:...
But when I tell him he hates flatterers,
He says he does, being then most flattered.