Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare Part 30

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes.

Hamlet -- I. 2.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes deeds ill done!

King John -- IV. 2.

DELAY.

That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.

Hamlet -- IV. 7.

DELUSION.

For love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place; Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.

Hamlet -- III. 4.

DISCRETION.

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Oth.e.l.lo -- II. 3.

DOUBTS AND FEARS.

I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

Macbeth -- III. 4.

DRUNKENNESS.

Boundless intemperance.

In nature is a tyranny; it hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne, And fall of many kings.

Measure for Measure -- I. 3.

DUTY OWING TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.

All's Well that Ends Well -- I. 1.

EQUIVOCATION.

But yet I do not like but yet, it does allay The good precedence; fye upon but yet: But yet is as a gailer to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor.

Antony and Cleopatra -- II. 5.

EXCESS.

A surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.

Midsummer Night's Dream -- II. 3.

Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.

Oth.e.l.lo -- II. 3.

FALSEHOOD.

Falsehood, cowardice, and poor descent, Three things that women hold in hate.

Two Gentlemen of Verona -- III. 2.