Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Part 35

Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath appeased.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -- V. 4.

PLAYERS.

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.

As You Like It -- II. 7.

There be players, that I have seen play,-- and heard others praise, and that highly,-- not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, Pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

Hamlet -- III. 2.

POMP.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?

And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

King Henry V. Part 3d -- V. 2.

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a bare is madness, the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.

The Merchant of Venice -- I. 2.

PRINCES AND t.i.tLES.

Princes have but their t.i.tles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: So that, between their t.i.tles, and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame.

King Richard III. -- I. 4.

QUARRELS.

In a false quarrel these is no true valor.

Much Ado About Nothing -- V. 1.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

King Henry VI., Part 2d -- III. 2.

RAGE.

Men in rage strike those that wish them best.

Oth.e.l.lo -- II. 3.

REPENTANCE.

Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after-hours give leisure to repent.

King Richard III. -- IV. 4.

REPUTATION.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is--spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.

A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest I-- a bold spirit in a loyal breast.

King Richard II. -- I. 1.

RETRIBUTION.

The G.o.ds are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.

King Lear -- V. S.

If these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from G.o.d.