Quotes from Troilus and Cressida
16 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1602
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!
Ulysses, Act I scene iii The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre Observe degree, priority and place,
Ulysses, Act I scene iii Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Ulysses, Act III scene iii Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion.
Ulysses, Troilus and Cressida Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery! Nothing else holds fashion.
Thersites, Troilus and Cressida Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!
Thersites, Act V scene ii The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it.
Hector, Troilus and Cressida Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Cressida, Act I scene ii Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
Cressida, Act I scene ii This is, and is not, Cressid.
Troilus, Act V scene ii Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright:
Ulysses, Act III scene iii He that will have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.
Pandarus, Act I scene i O madness of discourse, That cause sets up with and against itself!
Troilus, Act V scene ii I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.
Troilus, Act III scene ii The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
Thersites, Act II scene iii