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Degeneracy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead, And we are govern'd by our mothers' spirits;— J.C. i. 3.

Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish. O, that a mighty man of such descent, Of such possessions, and so high esteem,— T. S. IND. 2

Should be infused with so foul a spirit!— H. i 5

What a falling off was there! But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic; And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands— C. iii. 1

Against a falling fabric. For in the fatness of these pursy times,— H. iii. 4.

Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. 'Twas never merry world, since, of two usuries, the mer riest was put down, and the worser allowed, by order of law, a furred gown to keep him warm; and furred with fox and lambskins too, to signify that craft, being richer than— M.M. iii. 2.

innocency, stands for the facing. Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days, Or fill up chronicles in time to come, That men of your nobility and power, Did 'gage them both in an unjust behalf,- As both of you, God pardon it! have done?— IV. PT. I. i. 3

The world is grown so bad, That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch; Since every Jack became a gentleman,— R. III. i. 3.

There's many a gentle person made a Jack.