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Jealousy

 

O beware of jealousy:

It is the green-eyed monster, which does mock

The meat it feeds on.

 

                                                                                                              Idem.

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Authority

Could great men thunder

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,

For every pelting, petty officer

Would use his heaven for thunder--

Merciful heaven!

Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulohurous  bolt,

Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak,

Than the soft myrtle!-- O, but man, proud man!

Drest in a little brief authority--

Most ignorant of what he's most assured,

His glassy essence,--like an angry ape,

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,

As make the angles weep.

                                                                                                     Measure for Measure--II.2.

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Age

My May of life

Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf:

And that which should accompany old age,

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,

I must not look to have; but, in their stead,

Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath,

                                      Which the poor heart would feign deny, but dare not.

                                                                                                                     Macbeth--V.3.

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Braggarts

They that have the voice of lions, and the act of hares, are

they not monsters?

                                                                                                           Troilus and Cressida--III.2.

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Braggers

It will come to pass,

That every braggart shall be found an ass.   

                                                                      Much Ado About Nothing--IV.1.

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Beauty

The hand, that hath made you fair, hath made you good:

the goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes beauty brief in

goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion,

                                                  should keep the body of it ever fair.

                                                                                                            Measure for Measure--III.1.

Shakespeare quotations

Advice to a Son leaving Home             

  Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried

Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel;

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,

Bear it, that the opposer may beware of thee.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not expressed in fancy: rich, not gaudy:

For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France, of the best rank and station,

Are most select and generous, chief in that.

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend;

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all.- To thine ownself be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day,

                              Thou canst not then be false to any man.

                                                                                                                                    Hamlet- I.3.