Character Quotes

• "As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."
  By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Rivals (act III, st. 3)
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• "The amiable and the severe, Mr. Burke's sublime and beautiful, by different proportions, are mixed in every character. Accordingly, as either is predominant, men imprint the passions of love or fear. The best punch depends on a proper mixture of sugar and lemons."
  By: William Shenstone
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• "What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumption on which he habitually acts."
  By: George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
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• "If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper--and despise it."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "Let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into the trick of singularity."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Malvolio at II, v)
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• "Base men, that use them to so base effect! But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth; His words are bonds, his oath are oracles, His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate, His tears pure messengers sent from his heart, His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Julia at II, vii)
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• "Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken, And he wants it that wants resolved will To learn his wit t' exchange the bad for better."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, vi)
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• "Ah, Buckingham, now do I play the touch, To try if thou be current gold indeed: Young Edward lives."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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• "O, do not slander him, for he is kind."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Clarence at I, iv)
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• "When he is best he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst he is little better than a beast."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii)
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• "Now by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Solanio at I, i)
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• "How this grace Speaks his own standing! What a mental power This eye shoots forth! How big imagination Moves in this lip! To the dumbness of the gesture One might interpret."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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• "Heaven will one day open The king's eyes that so long have slept upon This bold bad man."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Chamberlain at II, ii)
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• "He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind, Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at IV, ii)
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• "If Cassio do remain, He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly; and besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at V, i)
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• "Why, now I see there's mettle in thee; and even from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever before."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at IV, ii)
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