Shakespeare Quotes About Language and Rhetoric
15 quotes across 6 plays.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief.
Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon, Wanting the manage of unruly jades.
The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd The shadow of your face.
What you will have it named, even that it is;
O, let me teach you how to knit again This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf
I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:
When will this fearful slumber have an end?
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Here is such patchery, such juggling and such knavery!
O madness of discourse, That cause sets up with and against itself!