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Villain I am none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive / That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be Doth dwell.

I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

A pair of tribunes that have wrecked fair Rome to make coals cheap - a noble memory!

Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!

Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.

How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain.

Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

The Prince's fool! Ha, it may be I go under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I am apt to do myself wrong.

Good my lord, be cured Of this diseased opinion, and betimes. For 'tis most dangerous.

As with all literature, the play should be read through the eyes of the author, as far as this is possible, which in Shakespeare's case means reading it through the eyes of an orthodox Christian living in Elizabethan England.

For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.

impatience does Become a dog that's mad.

I will desist; ...But there is something glows upon my cheek, And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place!

On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.

1Pet 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 1Pet 1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life.

That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.

with their minds turned agonizingly inward, people with depression are usually dangerous only to themselves. The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence.

Höss was hardly a sadist, nor was he a violent man or even particularly menacing. He might even be said to have possessed a serviceable decency. Indeed