Adversaries Quote by William Shakespeare

His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath…

— Walter de La Mare

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

— William Shakespeare

Thou hast seen many sorrows, travel-stained pilgrim of the world, But that which hath vexed thee most, hath been the looking for evil; And…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me…

— Thomas More

“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for…

— Dickens, Charles

Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

— Aaron Hill

“Thou man of scruffy looks, thou who heard’st nerfs, Thou fool-born wimpled roughhewn waste waste of flesh!”

— Ian Doescher

The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it overflows with…

— Anonymous

“He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days, the years…

— H.G. Wells

“They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely, but not…

— Shaemus O'Sheel

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

— George Herbert

“    Lead then, said EVE. Hee leading swiftly rowld   In tangles, and make intricate seem strait,   To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy   Bright'ns his…

— John Milton