Troilus and Cressida

By William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Thersites, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 27-9.

QUOTATION: Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Thersites, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 1, l. 43-4.

QUOTATION: I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Thersites, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 1, l. 118-9.

QUOTATION: I am as true as truth’s simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Troilus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 2, l. 169-70.

QUOTATION: ‘Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hector, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 2, l. 56-7.

QUOTATION: I have told you enough of this. For my part I’ll not meddle nor make no farther.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Pandarus, in Troilus and Cressida, act 1, sc. 1, l. 13-14.

QUOTATION: The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ulysses, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 101-2.

QUOTATION: Let thy song be love. This love will undo us all.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Helen, in Troilus and Cressida, act 3, sc. 1, l. 110-11.

QUOTATION: In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Nestor, in Troilus and Cressida, act 1, sc. 3, l. 33-4.

QUOTATION: I do hate a proud man as I hate the engendering of toads.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ajax, in Troilus and Cressida, act 2, sc. 3, l. 158-9.

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