Quotes About Authority

That would hang us, every mother's son.

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.

O! what authority and show of truthCan cunning sin cover itself withal.

Murderer: We are men, my liege.Macbeth: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,Even such a woman oweth to her husband.

'Ban, 'Ban, Ca—Caliban,Has a new master—Get a new man.

Masters, spread yourselves.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back.

The king's name is a tower of strength.

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,Without my stir.

What infinite heart's easeMust kings neglect that private men enjoy!And what have kings that privates have not too,Save ceremony, save general ceremony?And what art thou, thou idol ceremony?What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st moreOf mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?What are thy rents? what are thy comings-in?O ceremony! show me but thy worth.

This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein.

Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?

Tigers, not daughters.

And liberty plucks justice by the nose.

Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow?Kent: No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.Lear: What's that?Kent: Authority.

And it is greatTo do that thing that ends all other deeds,Which shackles accidents, and bolts up change.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

A king of shreds and patches.

I may command where I adore.

Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly.