Shakespeare quotes on debt

83 I never saw that you did painting need, And therefore to your fair no painting set, I found (or thought I found) you did exceed, That barren tender of a poet's debt
Source: THE SONNETS

Half won is match well made; match, and

At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, But at fourscore it is too late a week; Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor
Source: AS YOU LIKE IT

Saving your merry humour, here's the note How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion, Which doth amount to three odd ducats more Than I stand debted to this gentleman
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

I will discharge thee ere I go from thee; Bear me forthwith unto his creditor, And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it
Source: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

In these fear'd hopes I barely gratify your love; they failing, I must die much your debtor
Source: CYMBELINE

If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will you command me to use my legs? And yet that were but light payment-to dance out of your debt
Source: SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make when all those legs and arms and heads, chopp'd off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place'- some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left
Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH

I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak 'dout' fine, when he should say 'doubt'; 'det' when he should pronounce 'debt'- d, e, b, t, not d, e, t
Source: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST

You have paid the heavens your function, and the prisoner the very debt of your calling
Source: MEASURE FOR MEASURE

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I owe you much; and, like a wilful youth, That which I owe is lost; but if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both, Or bring your latter hazard back again And thankfully rest debtor for the first
Source: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

In common worldly things 'tis called ungrateful With dull unwillingness to repay a debt Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent; Much more to be thus opposite with heaven, For it requires the royal debt it lent you
Source: KING RICHARD III

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience- Too little payment for so great a debt
Source: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

I did endure Not seldom, nor no slight checks, when I have Prompted you in the ebb of your estate And your great flow of debts
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

Give to dogs What thou deniest to men; let prisons swallow 'em, Debts wither 'em to nothing
Source: THE LIFE OF TIMON OF ATHENS

Time as long again Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks; And yet we should for perpetuity Go hence in debt
Source: THE WINTER'S TALE

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