Chapter MAID to MAN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

A king, so good, so just, so great,
That at his birth the heavenly council paus’d,
And then, at last, cry’d out, this is a man!

Dryden.—The Duke of Guise, Act I. Scene 1.

This was a man!

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 5. (Antony on Brutus.)

MAN.—Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares more is none.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7. (To his Lady.)