Troilus and Cressida

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: Troilus. You have bereft me of all words, lady.
Pandarus. Words pay no debts, give her deeds.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, and Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 54-5.

QUOTATION: What a pair of spectacles is here!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Pandarus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 4, sc. 4, l. 14

QUOTATION: To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2.

QUOTATION: O Cressida! But that the busy day,
Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,
And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,
I would not from thee.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 4, sc. 2, l. 8-11.

QUOTATION: The raven chides blackness.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ulysses, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 211.

QUOTATION: Blunt wedges rive hard knots.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ulysses, in Troilus and Cressida, act 1, sc. 3, l. 316.

QUOTATION: My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown
Too headstrong for their mother.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 122-3.

QUOTATION: The dragon wing of night o’erspreads the earth.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Achilles, in Troilus and Cressida, act 5, sc. 8, l. 17.

QUOTATION: You are wise,
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love
Exceeds man’s might.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Cressida, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 155-7.

QUOTATION: Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Patroclus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 3, l. 229.

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