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Toward: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.— H. IV. PT. 1. ii. 4.

Slander'd to death by villains; That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue;— M. A. v. 1.

Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops. Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms.— H. IV. PT. I. i. 2.

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars; Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk! And these assume but valour's excrement, To render them redoubted.— M. V. iii. 2.

A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!— H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

marry and amen! The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they did budge— C. i. 6.

From rascals worse than they. Reproach and everlasting shame— H. V. iv. 5

Sit mocking in our plumes. Did I but suspect a fearful man, He should have leave to go away betimes; Lest, in our need, he might infect another, And make him of like spirit to himself. If any such be here, as God forbid ! Let him depart before we need his help.— H. VI. PT. III. v. 4

To say the truth, this fact was infamous, And ill-beseeming any common man; Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader.— H.VI. PT. I. iv. 1.

We took him for a coward, but he's the very devil incar— T. N. v. 1

dinate. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace.— Cym. iv. 2.

All the contagion of the south light on you! You shames of Rome! You herd of,-Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorred another Farther than seen, and one infect— C. 14.

Against the wind a mile!