He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He was as jealous of his power as an impotent lover of his mistress, without activity of mind enough to enjoy or exert it, but cou...ld not bear a share even in the appearances of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate the whole race.... There is no believing a word they say--your professional poets, I mean--there never existed a more worth...less set than Byron and his friends for example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Murderer. Where's thy conscience now?... 2nd Murderer. I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward.... It fills a ma...n full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
1st Lady. Madam, we'll tell tales. Queen. Of sorrow or of joy?... 1st Lady. Of either, madam. Queen. Of neither, girl. For if of joy, being altogether wanting, It doth remember me the more of sorrow. Or if of grief, being altogether had, It adds more sorrow to my want of joy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the littl...e ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Duke (in disguise). I pray you, sir, of what disposition was the Duke? Escalus. One that, above all other strifes, contended ...especially to know himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »