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Authority: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O place! O form! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wisest souls To thy false seeming. Blood, thou still art blood: Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, Tis not the devil's crest.— M. M. ii. 4.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There, There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority:— K. L. iv. 6.

A dog's obeyed in office. Authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,— M. M. ii. 2

That skins the vice o' the top. I shall remember: When Cæsar says, -Do this, it is perform'd.— J.C. i. 2

Authority bears a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch— M. M. iv. 4.

But it confounds the breather. Who will believe thee, Isabel! My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, Will so your accusation overweigh, That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny.— M. M. ii. 4

O, he sits high, in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy,— J.O. i. 3.

Will change to virtue and to worthiness. Well, I must be patient, there is no fettering of— A. W. ii. 3

authority. And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft— W. T. iv. 3.

led by the nose with gold. Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight.— M.M. i. 3

As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt. Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle. O, but man! proud man! Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assurd, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.— M. M. ii. 2.