LADY MACBETH: Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!

— Macbeth, V, i

HOLOFERNES: A good lustre of conceit in a tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough for a swine. 'Tis pretty; it is well.

— Love's Labor's Lost, IV, ii

QUEEN ELIZABETH: O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,

And teach me how to curse mine enemies!

QUEEN MARGARET: Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;

Compare dead happiness with living woe;

Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,

And he that slew them fouler than he is:

Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:

Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.

— Richard III, IV, iv

LEAR: Her voice was ever soft,

Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.

— King Lear, V, iii

HASTINGS: O momentary grace of mortal men,

Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!

Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,

Ready, with every nod, to tumble down

Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

— Richard III, III, iv

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1969-02-27), “Reflections on Violence,” The New York Review of Books

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A quotation from Emerson

Against all appearances the nature of things works for truth and right forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

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MACBETH: Now o'er the one half world

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse

The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates

Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,

Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,

Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.

With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design

Moves like a ghost.

— Macbeth, II, i

THESEUS: That is some satire, keen and critical.

— A Midsummer Night's Dream, V, i

PERICLES: Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

— Pericles, I, i

That's the trouble with computers, always think in black and white. No aquamarines, no blues, no imagination.

— The Doctor, in “The Invisible Enemy”

FRIAR LAURENCE: Take thou this vial, being then in bed,

And this distilled liquor drink thou off;

When presently through all thy veins shall run

A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse

Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.

— Romeo and Juliet, IV, i

“You've done yourself no good this morning, Mr. Holmes, for I have broken stronger men than you. No man ever crossed me and was the better for it.”

“So many have said so, and yet here I am,” said Holmes, smiling.

— Neil Gibson and Sherlock Holmes, in “The Adventure of Thor Bridge”

ROMEO: There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,

Doing more murders in this loathsome world,

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

— Romeo and Juliet, V, i

FRIAR LAURENCE: The sweetest honey

Is loathsome in his own deliciousness,

And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Therefore love moderately; long love doth so.

— Romeo and Juliet, II, vi

HASTINGS: We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

— 2 Henry IV, I, iii

CADE: Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer.

— 2 Henry VI, IV, ii

GOWER: I'll show you those in troubles reign,

Losing a mite, a mountain gain.

— Pericles, II, prologue

PERICLES: Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's their will;

And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?

— Pericles, I, i

“Two hundred years from now the numbers and kinds of species we observed here in the latter years of the 20th century may seem as unbelievable to future generations as the presence of passenger pigeons, cougars, wolves, and bison in Pennsylvania two hundred years ago seem to us.”
— Marcia Bonta

From decades ago but even truer now. What you see out in nature, write it down. Even things you take for granted may not be there 10, 20 or certainly 30 years from now. Document!!!
#nature #quotation