HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air.
Hamlet 1.4.1-2 2 Poor Tom's a-cold.
King Lear 3.4.143, EDGAR, disguised as Poor Tom, to GLOUCESTER 3 This place is too cold for Hell.
Macbeth 2.3.16-17, PORTER See also WEATHER; WINTER
COMFORT
4 That comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution.
Henry VIII 4.2.120-1, KATHERINE OF ARAGON TO CAPUCHIUS 5 I do not ask you much,
I beg cold comfort.
King John 5.7.41-2, JOHN TO PRINCE HENRY; in a similar but more down-to-earth phrase, Sebastian says of Gonzalo (Tempest 2.1.10-11), 'He receives comfort like cold porridge.'
6 Let no comforter delight mine ear
But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
Much Ado About Nothing 5.1.6-7, LEONATO TO ANTONIO
COMMUNICATION
7 If our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Measure for Measure 1.1.33-5, DUKE TO ANGELO 8 No man is the lord of anything,
Though in and of him there bè much consisting, Till he communicate his parts to others.
Troilus and Cressida 3.3.115-17, ULYSSES TO ACHILLES
COMPARISONS
9 So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr.
Hamlet 1.2.139-40, HAMLET'S comparison of his father with Claudius 10 My father's brother - but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules.
Hamlet 1.2.152-3, HAMLET
36 I COMPARISONS 1 Comparisons are odorous.
Much Ado About Nothing 3.5.15, DOGBERRY TO VERGES AND LEONATO 2 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red.
Sonnet 130.1-2; the poet rejects standard poetic comparisons COMPASSION
3 I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!
Tempest 1.2.5-6, MIRANDA TO PROSPERO COMPROMISE
4 I would dissemble with my nature where My fortunes and my friends at stake required I should do so in honour.
Coriolanus 3.2.62-4, VOLUMNIA TO CORIOLANUS; an ambitious mother's advice to her son
COMRADESHIP
5 Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be merry?
1 Henry IV 2.4.273-5, FALSTAFF TO HIS COMPANIONS 6 We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
Henry V 4.3.60, HENRY TO WESTMORLAND CONFUSION
7 My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel:
I know not where I am, nor what I do.
1 Henry VI 1.5.19-20, TALBOT
8 My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred, And I myself see not the bottom of it.
Troilus and Cressida 3.3.306-7, ACHILLES TO THERSITES; Thersites comments, T had rather be a tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance.'
CONSCIENCE
9 Conscience does make cowards of us all.
Hamlet 3.1.83, HAMLET
10 A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Henry VIII 3.2.379-80, WOLSEY TO CROMWELL
CONTENTMENT | 37 1 Disputation
'Tween frozen conscience and hot burning will.
Lucrèce 246-7
2 We will proceed n o further in this b u s i n e s s .
Macbeth 1.7.31, MACBETH TO LADY MACBETH, referring to the 'business' of murdering Duncan
3 The worm of conscience still begnaws thy soul.
Richard III 1.3.222, QUEEN MARGARET TO RICHARD
4 Some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.
Richard HI 1.4.120-1, SECOND MURDERER TO FIRST MURDERER; these dregs of conscience are, however, overcome a moment later: 'Zounds, he dies! I had forgot the reward.'
5 It makes a man a coward. A man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbour's wife but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shamefaced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.
Richard III 1.4.132-9, SECOND MURDERER TO FIRST MURDERER
6 Every man's conscience is a thousand men.
Richard HI 5.2.17, OXFORD TO COMPANIONS IN ARMS
7 Coward conscience.
Richard HI 5.3.180, RICHARD after dreaming of the ghosts of those he has murdered 8 My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Richard HI 5.3.194-6, RICHARD after dreaming of the ghosts of those he has murdered 9 Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.
Richard III 5.3.310-11, RICHARD TO NORFOLK CONTENTMENT
10 I seek not to wax great by others' waning, Or gather wealth I care not with what envy.
2 Henry VI 4.10.20-1, IDEN, a gentleman of Kent
38 I CONTENTMENT
1 My crown is called content;
A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.
3 Henry VI 3.1.64-5, HENRY to two keepers who are taking him prisoner; they reply that he must therefore 'be contented / To go along with us'
2 All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
Richard II 1.3.275, JOHN OF GAUNT TO BOLINGBROKE
See also COUNTRY LIFE; HAPPINESS; HUMBLE LIFE CONTRACTS
3 If you repay me not on such a day In such a place, such sum or sums as are Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me.
Merchant of Venice 1.3.145-50, SHYLOCK'S agreement with ANTONIO 4 I like not fair terms, and a villain's mind.
Merchant of Venice 1.3.178, BASSANIO TO ANTONIO
5 Let him look to his bond! he was wont to call me usurer, let him look to his bond!
Merchant of Venice 3.1.43-4, SHYLOCK TO SALERIO 6 I cannot find it, 'tis not in the bond.
Merchant of Venice 4.1.260, SHYLOCK TO PORTIA 7 Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1.169-70, CLAUDIO 8 I have no joy of this contract tonight:
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.
Romeo and Juliet 2.2.117-18, JULIET TO ROMEO CORRUPTION
9 Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Hamlet 1.4.90, MARCELLUS TO HORATIO 10 In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law.
Hamlet 3.3.57-60, CLAUDIUS
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