You have overcome yourself: but why do you show yourself to me only as the one overcome? I want to see the victor: cast roses into... the abyss and say, "Here is my thanks to the monster, because it didn't know how to swallow me!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, then, stay here; but know, When thou hast stayed and done thy most,... A naked thinking heart that makes no show Is to a woman but a kind of ghost. How shall she know my heart; or, having none, Know thee for one? Practice may make her know some other part, But take my word, she doth not know a heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's one for the money, Two for the show,... Three to get ready, Now go, cat, go! But don't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes. You can do anything but lay off my Blue Suede Shoes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth Station where time reverses his light heels... To run both ways, and makes of forward back; Whose long co-ordinates are birth and death....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven... Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature: to show<...br />virtue her feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,... It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »