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Pertinacity: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Nay, I will; that's flat: He said, he would not ransom Mortimer; Forbade my tongue to speak of Mortimer; But I will find him when he lies asleep, And in his ear I'll holla, - Mortimer!— H. IV. PT. I. i. 3.

Let them pull all about mine ears; present me Death on the wheel, or at wild horses' heels; Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock, That the precipitation might down stretch Below the beam of sight, yet will I still Be thus to them.— C. iii. 2.

You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh, than to receive Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that: But say, it is my humour; Is it answer'd?— M. V. iv. 1.

Speak of Mortimer! Zounds, I will speak of him: and let my soul Want mercy, if I do not join with him: Yea, on his part, I'll empty all these veins, And shed my dear blood, drop by drop, i' the dust.. But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer As high i' the air as this unthankful king, As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3 Pent to linger But with a grain a day, I would not buy Their mercy at the price of one fair word; Nor check my courage for what they can give, To hav't with saying,-Good morrow.— C. iii. 3

Nay, I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, To keep his anger still in motion.— H. IV. PT. 1. i. 3

Thou injurious tribune! Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths, In thy hands clutch'd as many millions, in Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say, Thou liest, unto thee, with a voice as free As I do pray the gods.— C. lii. 3.

Choler! Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, Rv Jove, 'twould be my mind.— C. iii. 1

It nothing steads us To enide him from our eaves.