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“But you are wise,
William Shakespeare
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man’s might; that dwells with gods above.” (Troilus and Cressida Quotes)
Troilus and Cressida
“He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot blood, and hot blood beget hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“I am a bastard, too. I love bastards! I am bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valor, in everything illegitimate.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr’d; And I myself see not the bottom of it.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep
William Shakespeare
seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking
it harder for our mistress to devise imposition
enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.
This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will
is infinite and the execution confined, that the
desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”
Troilus and Cressida
“Pleasure and revenge have ears more deaf than adders to the voice of any true decision.” (Troilus and Cressida Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“Prophet may you be!
William Shakespeare
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
when time is old and hath forgot itself,
when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
and blind oblivion swallowed cities up,
and mighty states characterless are grated
to dusty nothing, yet let memory,
from false to false, among false maids in love,
upbraid my falsehood!”
Troilus and Cressida
“Sleep kill those pretty eyes, and give as soft attachment to thy senses As infants’ empty of all thought!”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
“Take but degree away, untune that string,
William Shakespeare
And, hark, what discord follows!”
Troilus and Cressida
“Till then I’ll sweat and seek about for eases,
William Shakespeare
And at that time bequeath you my diseases.”
Troilus and Cressida
“Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.”
William Shakespeare
Troilus and Cressida
