Troilus and Cressida

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act. 3, sc. 2, l. 97.

QUOTATION: Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery. Nothing else holds fashion.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Thersites, in Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 2, l. 194-5.

QUOTATION: There is no help.
The bitter disposition of the time
Will have it so.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Paris, in Troilus and Cressida, act 4, sc. 1, l. 48-50.

QUOTATION: What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 2, l. 52.

QUOTATION: Hark, what good sport is out of town today.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Aeneas, in Troilus and Cressida, act 1, sc. 2, l. 116.

QUOTATION: This is the monstruosity in love, lady—that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 77-80 (1609).

QUOTATION: I’ll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 10, l. 28.

QUOTATION: Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 3, l. 108.

QUOTATION: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Agamemnon, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 265-6.

QUOTATION: A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Before a sleeping giant.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Agamemnon, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 137-8.

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