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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Unfit to hear moral philosophy.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 2, sc. 2, l. 163<br />

Thus to persist<br />

In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,<br />

But makes it much more heavy.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 2, sc. 2, l. 186<br />

I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.<br />

<strong>The</strong> imaginary relish is so sweet<br />

That it enchants my sense.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [17]<br />

This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that<br />

the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [85]<br />

To be wise, and love,<br />

Exceeds man’s might.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [163]<br />

I am as true as truth’s simplicity,<br />

And simpler than the infancy <strong>of</strong> truth.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [176]<br />

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,<br />

Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,<br />

A great-sized monster <strong>of</strong> ingratitudes:<br />

Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured<br />

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon<br />

As done.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145<br />

Perseverance, dear my lord,<br />

Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang<br />

Quite out <strong>of</strong> fashion, like a rusty mail<br />

In monumental mockery.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 150<br />

Time is like a fashionable host<br />

That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,<br />

And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly,<br />

Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,<br />

And farewell goes out sighing.<br />

‘Troilus And Cressida’ (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 165<br />

Beauty, wit,<br />

High birth, vigour <strong>of</strong> bone, desert in service,<br />

Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all

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