Thursday Thirteen 019: 13 Shakespeare Quotes.
From Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Titus Andronicus.
1. "There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
2. "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never."
3. "O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."
4. "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
5. "The head is not more native to the heart."
6. "My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules."
7. "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."
8. "Unhand me, gentlemen.
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!"
9. "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life. "
10. "O happy man! they have befriended thee.
Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey
But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,
From these devourers to be banished!"
11. "Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
A stone is soft as wax, tribunes more hard than stones:
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death."
12. "If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul."
13. "The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,
To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!
Well, bury him, and bury me next."
1. "There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
2. "Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never."
3. "O that he were here to write me down an ass! But masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."
4. "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
5. "The head is not more native to the heart."
6. "My father's brother, but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules."
7. "The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel."
8. "Unhand me, gentlemen.
By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!"
9. "You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal; except my life, except my life, except my life. "
10. "O happy man! they have befriended thee.
Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive
That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?
Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey
But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,
From these devourers to be banished!"
11. "Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
A stone is soft as wax, tribunes more hard than stones:
A stone is silent, and offendeth not,
And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death."
12. "If one good deed in all my life I did,
I do repent it from my very soul."
13. "The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,
To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!
Well, bury him, and bury me next."