Bartlette's Quotations: Troilus and Cressida.

   
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1 I have had my labour for my travail.
Act i. Sc. 1.
2 Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy.
Sc. 3.
3 The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come.
Ibid.
4 Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
5 The common curse of mankind,--folly and ignorance.
Sc. 3.
6 All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
7 Welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
Sc. 3.
8 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Ibid.
9 And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.
Ibid.
10 And like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,
Be shook to air.
Ibid.
11 His heart and hand both open and both free;
For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty.
Act iv. Sc. 5.
12 The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Ibid.