Desperation: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
Some say he's mad; others, that lesser hate him, Do call it valiant fury; but for certain, He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of rule.— M. v. 2.
Fortune knows, We scorn her most when most she offers blows. A. C. iii. 9. Whip me, ye devils, From the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!— O. v. 2.
O Desdemona! Our enemies have beat us to the pit: It is more worthy to leap in ourselves, Than tarry till they push us.— J.C. v. 5.
Yet I will try the last: Before my body I throw my warlike shield; lay on, Macduff; And damn'd be he that first cries "Hold! Enough!"— M. V. 7.
Ring the alarum bell: Blow wind, come wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.— M. V. 5.
The time and my intents are savage wild; More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers, on the roaring sea.— R. J. v. 3
Now could I drink hot blood, And do such business as the bitter day Would quake to look on.— H. iii. 2.
No, I defy all counsel, all redress, But that which ends all counsel, true redress, Death, death.— K. J. iii. 4.
O all you host of heaven! O earth!-what else? And shall I couple hell?-O fie!-Hold, hold, my heart; And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up.— H. i. 5.
Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend But resolution and the briefest end.— A. C. iv. 13.