Timon Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

#8. 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

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

William Shakespeare

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. You can't believe everything you hear, but it's fun to repeat it anyway.

Milton Berle

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

Margaret Mahy

#14. At the return of Christ the resurrection of believers will take place. It will take the unbelieving world by surprise.

Billy Graham

#15. I will unbolt to you

William Shakespeare

#16. Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter, and love. The wealthy could not buy these things. On the contrary, they were for the taking.

Mark Helprin

#17. The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, with wide eyes, high cheekbones, and a long, thin nose. Sometimes you could still catch sight of that beauty, and it was like looking through enchanted glass.

Sarah Addison Allen

#18. You might not have charged me a fee, but kissing you is too big of a price for me. I didn't sign up for this. Now let me go.

Linda Kage

#19. Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Peter Jackson

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

Margaret Mahy

#21. 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

#22. The only male singer who I've seen besides myself and who's better than me
that is Michael Jackson.

Frank Sinatra