Quotes from Troilus and Cressida — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; Th' effect doth operate another way.
With ridiculous and awkward action,
Which, slanderer, he imitation calls.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loath’d than an effeminate man
In time of action.
The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds.
How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall,
While others play the idiots in her eyes!
For men, like butterflies,
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer.
He is so plaguy proud that the death tokens of it
Cry "No recovery."
I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.
Go in, and cheer the town; we'll forth and fight;
Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush
Modest as morning when she coldly eyes
The youthful Phœbus.
What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion.
That what he will he does, and does so much
That proof is call'd impossibility.
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows!
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