Tag: Tragedies

  • December 18

    December 18

    The abuse of greatness
    is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  • December 16

    December 16

    A plague of opinion!
    A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

  • December 12

    December 12

    There is nothing either good or bad,
    but thinking makes it so.

  • December 11

    December 11

    How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath
    To say to me that thou art out of breath?
    The excuse that thou dost make in this delay
    Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.

  • December 4

    December 4

    Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
    That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
    And then is heard no more: it is a tale
    Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
    Signifying nothing.

  • December 3

    December 3

    To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
    Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

  • December 2

    December 2

    I must not break my back to heal his finger.