Sound and Fury
O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world.
— King John,
Act III, Scene iv

O, that my tongue were in the thunder’s mouth!
Then with a passion would I shake the world.
— King John,
Act III, Scene iv

Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail
And say there is no sin but to be rich;
And being rich, my virtue then shall be
To say there is no vice but beggary.
–King John,
Act II, Scene i

To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow…
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
–King John,
Act IV, Scene ii

And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
–King John,
Act IV, Scene ii

Be great in act as you have been in thought.
–King John,
Act V, Scene i

When Fortune means to men most good,
She looks upon them with a threat’ning eye.
–King John,
Act III, Scene iv

Courage mounteth with occasion.
–King John,
Act II, Scene i