Thy Brother

Famous quotes containing the words thy brother, thy and/or brother:

    Thy brother by decree is banishèd.
    If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for him,
    I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
    Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
    Thou know’st ‘tis common, all that lives must die,
    Passing through nature to eternity.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    I against my brother
    I and my brother against our cousin
    I, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors
    All of us against the foreigner.
    —Bedouin Proverb. Quoted by Bruce Chatwin in “From the Notebooks,” ch. 30, The Songlines (1987)