“Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
Category: Lit & Crit
“I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“I am a true labourer; I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness; glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“He that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 3.2
“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude; thy tooth is not so keen.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; then the whining school-boy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. And then the lover, sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lin’d, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances; and so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon, with spectacles on nose and pouch on side; his youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“He that a fool doth very wisely hit doth very foolishly, although he smart, not to seem senseless of the bob; if not, the wise man’s folly is anatomiz’d even by the squandering glances of the fool.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.7
“The fact that there is a Puritan doctrine of liberty, whatever its limitations, is immensely important. Repeatedly Puritanism brings the question of liberty up for discussion, and this is a major service. While operating within the prescribed bounds of ‘Christian’ liberty, Puritanism, further, does a great deal to foster the notion of individuality, and an individualistic outlook, with results partially, though not wholly, favourable to democracy.” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
“Nothing stokes human creativity like the desire to kill a motherfucker you don’t like.” – The Fat Electrician, “America’s Secret Weapon That Won WW2 – VT Fuze”
“We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.4
“To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 2.3
“How full of briers is this working-day world!” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 1.3
“The true temper and proper employment of a Christian is always to be working like the sea, and purging ignorance out of his understanding and exchanging notions and apprehensions imperfect for more perfect, and forgetting things behind to press forward.” – Henry Robinson, Liberty and Conscience
“The more the pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.” – William Shakespeare, As You Like It 1.2
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 4.3
“When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 4.2
“The Puritan turned to the theological aspects of a question as naturally as the modern man turns to the economic; and his first instinct was to seek guidance within the covers of his Bible—or was it rather to seek there justification for a policy already determined on other, on political and economic, grounds?” – A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.1
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream: the genius and the mortal instruments are then in council; and the state of man, like to a little kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.1
“’Tis a common proof that lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.1
“The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins remorse from power.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 2.1
“Every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 1.3
“Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, can be retentive to the strength of spirit; but life, being weary of these worldly bars, never lacks power to dismiss itself.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 1.3
“Men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar 1.3
“Fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies’ favours, they do always reason themselves out again. What! a speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow.” – William Shakespeare, King Henry V 5.2
“Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs honour is cudgell’d.” – William Shakespeare, King Henry V 5.1