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Tyrant Quotes by William Shakespeare
- This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
- Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!
- O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening…
More Tyrant Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and… — Ronald Reagan
- To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant,… — Jonathan Mayhew
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus
- The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
- If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let… — Lord Byron