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Danger: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

There Monitaurs and ugly treason lurk. H. VI. PT. I. v. 3. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.— H. VI. PT. II. iii. 1.

France, thou mayest hold a serpent by the tongue, A cased lion by the mortal paw, A fasting tyger safer by the tooth Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.— K. J. iii. 1.

"The purpose you undertake is dangerous :"-why, that's certain; 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink ;but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.— H. IV. PT. I. ii. 3.

The welfare of us all Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.— H. VI. PT. II. iii. 1

If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights- You pluck a thousand dangers on your head; You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts, And prick my tender patience to those thoughts— R. II. ii. 1.

Which honour and allegiance cannot think. Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride That hath to this maturity blown up In rank Achilles, must or now be cropp'd, Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil, To overbulk us all.— T. C. i. 3.

There is more in it than fair visage.— H. VIII. iii. 2.

Old

'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp Than with an old one dying.— A. C. iii. 11.