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Inflexibility: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

You may as well go stand upon the beech, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops and to make no noise, When they are fretted with the gusts of heaven You may as well do any thing most hard, As seek to soften that-(than which what's harder?) His Jewish heart!— M. V. iv. 1

Swear his thought over By each particular star in heaven, and By all their influences, you may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon, As or, by oath, remove, or counsel, shake, The fabric of his folly; whose foundation Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue The standing of his body.— W.T. i. 2.

I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak: I'll have my bond: and therefore speak no more. M. V. iii. 3. There's no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.— C. v. 4.