Best Timon Quotes

#1. My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Anyone can be brave for five minutes or an hour or two. The bravery no one talks about is the hardest bravery of all. When you get up in the morning even though you'd rather be dead, that's brave.

Carys Bray

#3. There is no food closer to my heart than cheese. In fact, according to my doctor, it has nearly filled my aorta.

Stephen Colbert

#4. It is really about 'right versus wrong.

Anonymous

#5. You can be who you will," he repeated. His voice softened. "And if you will have me, I will be the one beside you.

Shannon Hale

#6. I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it?

Margaret Mahy

#7. Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!
Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:
Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,
These flies are couch'd.

William Shakespeare

#8. Lips, let sour words go by and language end:
What is amiss plague and infection mend!
Graves only be men's works and death their gain!
Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.

William Shakespeare

#9. First Senator
Worthy Timon,
TIMON
Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.

William Shakespeare

#10. Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

William Butler Yeats

#11. ALCIBIADES: How came the noble Timon to this change?
TIMON: As the moon does, by wanting light to give:
But then renew I could not, like the moon;
There were no suns to borrow of.

William Shakespeare

#12. TIMON
A fool of thee: depart.
APEMANTUS
I love thee better now than e'er I did.
TIMON
I hate thee worse.

William Shakespeare

#13. The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

Lewis Grizzard

#14. Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

Billy Graham

#15. Timon: I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.

William Shakespeare

#16. Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

Gavin Bryars

#17. They've a temper, some of them
particularly verbs: they're the proudest
adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs
however I can manage the whole lot of them!

Lewis Carroll

#18. Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.

William Shakespeare

#19. I will unbolt to you

William Shakespeare

#20. I like living in the 20th century ... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Jeffrey Smart

#21. Timon: Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!

William Shakespeare

#22. Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

Margaret Mahy

#23. Timon will to the woods, where he shall find
Th' unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.
The gods confound - hear me, you good gods all -
Th' Athenians both within and out that wall!
And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow
To the whole race of mankind, high and low!
Amen.

William Shakespeare