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Favour: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

For taking one's part that's out of favour: Nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thoul't catch cold shortly.— K. L. i. 4

O, who shall believe, But you misuse the reverence of your place; Employ the countenance and grace of heaven, As a false favourite does his prince's name— H. IV. PT. II. iv. 2

In deeds dishonourable. Sickness is catching: O, were favour so!— M. N. i. 1.

I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail— A. C. ii. 5.

Rich pearls upon thee.

Favourites, Presumption Of

Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter; -like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride— M. A. iii. 1.

Against that power that bred it.

Fault

I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with— C. i. 1.

surplus, to tire in repetition. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides; Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.— K. L. i. 1.

You shall find there A man, who is the abstract of all faults— A.C. i 4.

That all men follow. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! Why every fault's condemn'd ere it be done: Mine were the very cipher of a function, To find the faults whose fine stands in record,— M. M. ii. 2

And let go by the actor. There's something in me that reproves my fault; But such a headstrong potent fault it is,— T. N. iii. 4.

That it but mocks reproof. all like one There were none principal; they were all like one seeming monanother, as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous, till his fellow fault came to match it.— A. Y. iii. 2.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way; but nobody but has his fault:-but let that pass.— M. W. i. 4.

I will not open my mouth so wide as a bristle may enter,— T. N. i. 5

in way of thy excuse.