Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no.

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

I had as lief have been myself alone.

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.