Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.
William ShakespeareAway, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
William ShakespeareI did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
William ShakespeareWhen that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
William Shakespeare