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"Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed 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 makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal."
"Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?"
"I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike."
"I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?"
"Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use"
"Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!"
"I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost."
"Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies."
"So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical."
"I almost die for food, and let me have it!"
"My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
"To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved."
"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears."
"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
"Such as we are made of, such we be."
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
"And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born."
"I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."
"He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."
"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond."