#Power Quotes

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.”

“When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed.”

“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.”

“Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,And so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,Subjected tribute to commanding love,Against whose fury and unmatched forceThe aweless lion could not wage the fightNor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.”

“Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?”

“There is none but heWhose being I do fear; and under himMy genius is rebuked, as it is saidMark Antony's was by Caesar.”

“But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,Lives not alone immured in the brain;But, with the motion of all elements,Courses as swift as thought in every power,And gives to every power a double power,Above their functions and their offices.”

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“A king of infinite space”

“Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King.”

“Discharge my followers; let them hence away, From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.”

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

“Plutus himself,That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,Hath not in nature's mystery more scienceThan I have in this ring.”

“Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.”

“O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.”

“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”

“Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.”

“If you be King, why should not I succeed?”

“The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“I can call spirits from the vasty deep.”

“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”

“Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.”

“Gold--what can it not do, and undo?”

“Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!”

“Gold were as good as twenty orators.”

“The king's name is a tower of strength.”

“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.”

“The gates of monarchsAre arched so high that giants may jet throughAnd keep their impious turbans on withoutGood morrow to the sun.”

“Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.”

“The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”

“Policy sits above conscience.”

“The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.”

“I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!”

“Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.”

“The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.”

“All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.”

“When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will”

“Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.”

“Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.”

“Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“Give me a staff of honor for mine age,But not a sceptre to control the world.”

“They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.”

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”

“Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.”