 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience. WT iii. 2. PLEASURE AND REVENGE, RECKLESSNESS OF. Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. TC ii. 2. PLEDGE. My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. /. C. iv. 3. PLODDING. Why,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. PLEASURE AND REVENGE. For pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. »HE SUBTILTY OF UI.YSSES, AND STCPIDITY OF AJAX. .,'/'"'' I do hate a proud man, as I hate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations - 1910 - 232 pages
...deceivers ever ; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Decision. — Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. — Troi. & Cress. Act 2,' Sc. 2. Deed — Deeds. — 111 deeds are doubled with an evil... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. 3843 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1 Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. 3844 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 2, I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 404 pages
...of distempered blood, Than to make up a free determination 170 Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be renderYl to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Cressida (Fictitious character) - 1912 - 220 pages
...distemp'red blood Than to make up a free determination 170 'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge_ Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves AH dues be rend'red to their owners : now, What nearer debt in all humanity... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...Hatred. My injur'd honor, Impatient of the wrong, calls for revenge. Rowe: Lady Jane Grey. Pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Shakespeare: Troilus and CrcssidaRevenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on... | |
 | Torsten Hilding Svartengren - English language - 1918 - 558 pages
...NEDV and the Chaucerian, Thou shall make him couche as doth a quaille. See Still, Ch. IV. Pleasure and revenge/ Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice/ Of any true decision. Shak., TC, II, ii, 172. I am as deaf as an adder. Dryden, A, VI, 108. Ye are deaf as adders... | |
 | Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy - English fiction - 1919 - 332 pages
...would nurture such cruel Schemes? And yet, did not the late Mr. Shakespeare warn us that " Pleasure and Revenge have ears more deaf than Adders to the voice of any true decision" ? Ah, me! but I was sick at heart. CHAPTER XIV THE RULING PASSION And now, dear Mistress,... | |
 | Hugh Elliot - Character - 1922 - 302 pages
...of a solicitor or friend. All passions blunt and deaden the faculty of judgment. "... For pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision." The rational pursuit of personal interest is often disturbed by gusts of passion or of milder... | |
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Twixt right and wrong ; for pleasure and revenge Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. 
