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| Troilus and Cressida Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so loved, and the performance so loathed? | Agents | Troilus and Cressida |
| 2 | Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. | Doubt | Troilus and Cressida |
| 3 | Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. | Honor | Troilus and Cressida |
| 4 | 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the God. | Idolatry | Troilus and Cressida |
| 5 | The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre observe degree, priority and place, insisture, course, proportion, season, form, office and custom, in all line of order. | Order | Troilus and Cressida |
| 6 | Sometimes we are devils to ourselves, When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. | Temptation | Troilus and Cressida |
| 7 | For time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, Grasps-in the comer. Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. | Past | Troilus and Cressida |
| 8 | The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre Observe degree, priority and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office and custom, in all line of order. | Order | Troilus and Cressida |
| 9 | One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,-- That all with one consent praise new-born gawds, * * * * * And give to dust, that is a little gilt, More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. | Fame | Troilus and Cressida |
| 10 | What the declined is He shall as soon read in the eyes of others As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. | Friendship | Troilus and Cressida |
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