Character Quotes

• "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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• "You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch. Therefore bear you the lanthorn."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry at III, iii)
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• "Angelo, There is a kind of character in thy life, That to th' observer doth thy history Fully unfold."
  By: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i)
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• "I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Malcolm at IV, iii)
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• "What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."
  By: William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at I, v)
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• "I do profess to be no less that I seem, to serve him truly that will put me in trust, to love him that is honest, to converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear judgment, to fight when I cannot choose, and to eat no fish."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Kent at I, iv)
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• "Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich being poor, Most choice forsaken, and most loved despised, Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (King of France at I, i)
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• "They take it already upon their salvation that, though I be but Prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy, and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a good boy (by the Lord, so they call me!), and when I am king of England I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at II, iv)
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• "What a frosty-spirited rogue is this!"
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at II, iii)
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• "There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee, nor thou cam'st not of the blood royal if thou darest not stand for ten shillings."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at I, ii)
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• "O, sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offense in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness."
  By: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Casca at I, iii)
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• "I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, i)
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• "One that goes with him; I love him for his sake, And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward. Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Look bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
  By: William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at I, i)
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• "Do you seek Alcide's equal? None is, except himself. [Lat., Quaeris Alcidae parem? Nemo est nisi ipse.]"
  By: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Furens (I, 1, 84)
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• "The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character."
  By: Joseph Alexandre Pierre, Vicomte de Segur
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• "A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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