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As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.
As fierce as hell, or fiercer still,
A woman piqued who has her will.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
Sudden friendship, sure repentance.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live
with you.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your read more
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions: first, her father slain;
Next, your son gone, and he most violent author
Of his own just remove; the people muddied,
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
For good Polonius' death, and we have done but greenly
In hugger-mugger to inter him; poor Ophelia
Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts;
Last, and as much containing as all these,
Her brother is in secret come from France,
Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
With pestilent speeches of his father's death,
Wherein necessity, of matter beggared,
Will nothing stick our person to arraign
In ear and ear.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
Virtue alone is happiness below.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.