How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare on Memorial Day
1564–1616 England
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And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
Henry V (1599)
Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
Henry V (1599)
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Othello (1603)
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills.
It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook’s temper.
Let this my sword report what speech forbears.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;
The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs.
King John (1595)
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Richard II (1595)
Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
They bore him barefac'd on the bier;
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And in his grave rain'd many a tear.
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
Henry V (1599)
What mean these masterless and gory swords
To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
Lay her i' the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!
By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I’ll kill him; by this sword, I will.
Henry V (1599)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Shakespeare (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.