Quotes About Expression

The eagle suffers little birds to sing,And is not careful what they mean thereby.

Could I come near your beauty with my nailsI'd set my ten commandments in your face.

Ophelia:'Tis brief, my lord.Hamlet: As woman's love.

O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

A very beadle to a humorous sigh.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em;Thought is free.

A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation,Figures pedantical.

Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,Stain my man's cheeks!

Women speak two languages — one of which is verbal.

Never yet did insurrection wantSuch water-colors to impaint his cause.

My love'sMore richer than my tongue.

I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Speak, hands, for me!

Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sortAs if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spiritThat could be mov'd to smile at anything.

Howl, howl, howl, howl! O! you are men of stones:Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them soThat heaven's vaults should crack. She's gone forever.

'Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with wordsSince I first call'd my brother's father dad.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew,Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers.

I understand a fury in your words,But not the words.

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled,Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.