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" I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour,... "
The Dramatic Works - Page 336
by William Shakespeare - 1831
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Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-knowledge

Rolf Soellner - Drama - 1972 - 488 pages
...subsequently deplore the sideeffects of his self-loss when he speaks of having lost the comforts of life: My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V.iii.22-38) These lines are not an appeal to sympathy; they are a demonstration of...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...prefer old age to the alternative. Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) French singer, actor I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. Macbeth, Macbeth William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet What is the worst of woes...
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New Theatre Quarterly 30: Volume 8, Part 2

Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1992 - 100 pages
...on which even despair must rely: I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V, iii, 22-8) Though cross-casting is in itself neither a sufficient nor necessary condition...
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Macbeth

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 132 pages
...Seyton, I say! - This push 20 5,3 95 I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...mouth-honour, breath Which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. - Seyton! Enter SEYTON. SEYTON What's your gracious pleasure? MACBETH What news more?...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare, Hugh Black-Hawkins - Drama - 1992 - 68 pages
...chair me ever or dis-seat me now. I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath taint : weaken epicures : gluttons patch : idiot whey : skim milk fallen into the sere : withered Which...
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Aristotle's Philosophy of Friendship

Suzanne Stern-Gillet - Philosophy - 1995 - 248 pages
...lament at the end of his reign might have been written to illustrate Aristotle's point: I have UVd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. 85 These lines express not so much remorse as the belated and bitter realization that...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 10371 Macbeth I have lived long bertson 10372 Macbeth I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot...
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Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...(Exit Servant. The others remain on their knees.) Seyton! — I am sick at heart. I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the...obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have. Seyton! (Still no answer. He turns to one of the kneeling figures.) How does your patient, doctor?...
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The Wisdom of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Macbeth — Macbeth III.iv I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the...mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Macbeth — Macbeth V.iii I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards To run and...
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Tyranny in Shakespeare

Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...cheer me ever, or disseat me now. I have liv'd long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old...mouth-honour, breath. Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. (V.iii.20-28) The way of life he has led is the life of a man who dies young, not the...
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