13 quotes found
“O me, this place is hell.”
“Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.”
“Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.”
“You know what whore is. Next the devil adultery,Enters the devil murder.”
“Take it for words. O womans poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!”
“Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other.”
“What a strange creature is a laughing fool,As if a man were created to no useBut only to show his teeth.”
“O that I were a man, or that I had powerTo execute my apprehended wishes!I would whip some with scorpions.”
“Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try: We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”
“Fortunes a right whore:If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels,That she may take away all at one swoop.”
“As in this world there are degrees of evils, So in this world there are degrees of devils.”
“Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!Of all deaths, the violent death is best;For from ourselves it steals our...”
“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself int.”
