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Repentance: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Who by repentance is not satisfied Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleas'd; By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeas'd.— T. G. v. 4

Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon, When men revolted shall upon record Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did Before thy face repent.— A. C. iv. 9.

And begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.— H. IV. PT. II. ii. 4

Like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes, Than that which hath no foil to set it off. H. IV. PT. 1. 1. 2. Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heavy current, scow'ring faults: Nor ever hydra-headed wilfulness So soon did lose his seat, and fall at once, As in this king.— H. V. i. 1.

What is done, cannot be now amended: Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, Which after hours give leisure to repent.— R. III. iv 4.

To mock the expectation of the world; To frustrate prophecies; and to raze out Rotten opinion, which hath writ me down After my seeming. The tide of blood in me Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now; Now doth it turn, and ebb back to the sea; Where it shall mingle with the state of floods, And flow henceforth in formal majesty. H. IV. PT. II. v. 2 Hold up your hands; say nothing, I'll speak all. They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, became much more the better For being a little bad; so may my husband.— M. M. v 1

The prince will, in the perfectness of time, Cast off his followers; and their memory Shall as a pattern or a measure live, By which his grace must mete the lives of others: Turning past evils to advantages.— H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4

$20 I do not shame To tell you what I was, since my conversion— 4. Y. iv. 3.

So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am. Forgive me, Valentine; if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here: I do as truly suffer, As e'er I did commit.— T. G. v. 4

For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self;— H. IV. PT. ii. v. 5

So will I those that kept me company. Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a church! Company, villainous company, has been the spoil of me.— H. IV. PT. 1. iii. 3.

Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my pray-— M. W. iv. 5