We have listed some well-known quotes from Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's tragedy set during the Trojan War.
Her bed is India: there she lies, a pearl.
(Troilus, Act 1 Scene 1)
Alexander: They say he is a very man per se, and stands alone.
Cressida: So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.
(Act 1 Scene 2)
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
That she beloved knows nought that knows nought this:
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
(Cressida, Act 1 Scene 2)
The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
Observe degree, priority and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom, in all line of order.
(Ulysses, Act 1 Scene 3)
There is seen
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come at large.
(Nestor, Act 1 Scene 3)
We turn not back the silks upon the merchant
When we have spoiled them.
(Troilus, Act 2 Scene 2)
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
(Thersites, Act 2 Scene 3)
They say all lovers swear more performance than they are able.
(Cressida, Act 3 Scene 2)
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:
Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devoured
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon
As done.
(Ulysses, Act 3 Scene 3)
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
(Ulysses, Act 3 Scene 3)
A plague of opinion! A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
(Thersites, Act 3 Scene 3)
Time, force and death,
Do to this body what extremity you can;
But the strong base and building of my love
Is as the very centre of the earth,
Drawing all things to it.
(Cressida, Act 4 Scene 2)
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;
Nay, her foot speaks, her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
(Ulysses, Act 4 Scene 5)
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
(Hector, Act 4 Scene 5)