Prithee Quotes

#1. I prithee gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passions, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace.

William Shakespeare

#2. Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Colley Cibber

#3. Why so pale and wan, fond lover,
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

John Suckling

#4. Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

Douglas Rushkoff

#5. Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Walter Scott

#6. It was, I thought, what evil must smell like.

David Sedaris

#7. CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
CLOWN: No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets.

William Shakespeare

#8. I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

David Nail

#9. Z - ds! damn the lock! 'fore Gad, you must be civil! Plague on't!'t is past a jest - nay prithee, pox! Give her the hair" - he spoke, and rapp'd his box.

Alexander Pope

#10. Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Jim Butcher

#11. I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it.

Jeff Tremaine

#12. Prithee," He protested, "if thou wouldst waiteth a goddamned second-

Tessa Dare

#13. I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?

Kate Winslet

#14. To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting.

Plutarch

#15. A relentless barrage of 'why's' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

Shigeo Shingo

#16. Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!

Emily Dickinson

#17. Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love.

Pope Francis

#18. Lo, lo, again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

William Shakespeare

#19. Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

Yasmin Mogahed

#20. The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

Rob Bell

#21. I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

John Suckling

#22. Lear wills his own death: "Break, heart, I prithee break

James Shapiro

#23. I prithee take thy fingers from my throat, For, though I am not splenitive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear. Hold off thy hand. - From Hamlet by Shakespeare

Matthew Quick

#24. When we walk in the sun
our shadows are like barges of silence.

Mark Strand