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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. To things of sale a seller's praise belongs.— L. L. iv. 3.

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, I profit in the knowledge of myself.— T. N. V. 1.

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.