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Praise: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Do not smile at me, that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,— T. iv. 1.

And make it halt behind her. You shall not be The grave of your deserving: Rome must know The value of her own: 'twere a concealment Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,— C. i. 9.

To hide your doings. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things: One good deed, dying tongueless, Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that:— W.T. i. 9.

Our praises are our wages. Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.— A. W. v. 3.

Poems. Cautious they praise, who purpose not to sell.— L. L. iv. 3.

To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.

And Censure

Marry, Sir, they praise me and make an ass of me: now my foes tell me plainly, I'm an ass; so that by my foes, Sir,— T. N. V. 1.

I profit in the knowledge of myself.

In storm perpetual, could not move the gods— W. T. iii. 2

To look that way thou wert. I pray thee leave me to myself to-night; For I have need of many orisons To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full of sin.— R. J. iv. 3

Lovers, And men in dangerous bonds, pray not alike. CyT. iii.— Cym. iii. 2.

Get him to say his prayers; good Sir Toby, get him to pray. him to pray. to pray.— N. iii. 4.