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Determination: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I have given suck; and know How tender 'tis, to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as You have done to this.— M i. 7

I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape,— H. i. 2.

And bid me hold my peace. Cannot, is false; and that I dare not, falser; I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.— J. C. ii. 2.

Shall I stay here to do't; no, no, although The air of paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all: I will be gone.— A. W. iii. 2.

It was my will and grant; And for this once, my will shall stand for law.— H. VI. PT. III. iv. 1.

Then all too late comes counsel to be heard, Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.— R. II. ii. 1.

My resolution, and my hands I'll trust; None about Cæsar.— A. C. iv. 13.

I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.— A.C. V. 2.