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Mutability: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

How chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors!— H. IV. PT. II. iii. 1

To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he— H. V. ]

find it stopping a bung-hole ? Imperious Cæsar, dead, and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away: O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!— H. v. 1.

All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral: Our instruments, to melancholy bells; Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,— R. J. iv. 5.

And all things change them to the contrary. This world is not for aye; nor 'tis not strange, That even our love should with our fortunes change; For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. H. iii.— H. iii. 2.

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we what we may be!— H. iv. 5.