The caterpillars of the common...

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

The thorny point
Of bare ...

The thorny point
Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show
Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred
And know some nurture.

Nay, I am the very pink of cou...

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

Women are angels, wooing:

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

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Plenty and peace breed cowards...

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou ...

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety.

For my part, I may speak it to...

For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too.

Foul fiend of France and hag o...

Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,
Encompassed with thy lustful paramours,
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age
And twit with cowardice a man half dead?

Milk-livered man,
That be...

Milk-livered man,
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punished
Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
'Alack, why does he so?']

Foul deeds will rise,
Tho...

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Between the acting of a dreadf...

Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

Tremble, thou wretch,
Tha...

Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipped of justice.

If little faults proceeding on...

If little faults proceeding on distemper
Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye
When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,
Appear before us?

The wounds invisible that Love...

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

All the contagion of the south...

All the contagion of the south light on you,
You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen, and one infect another
Against the wind a mile!

May never glorious sun reflex ...

May never glorious sun reflex his beams
Upon the country where you make abode!
But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
Environ you till mischief and despair
Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

Villains, vipers, damn'd witho...

Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;
Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man;
Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;
Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas.

If is a custom,
More hono...

If is a custom,
More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

The breach of custom
Is b...

The breach of custom
Is breach of all.

The tyrant custom, most grave ...

The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.