Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.
William ShakespeareMarry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.
William ShakespeareNot all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.
William Shakespeare