51852. Shakespeare, William. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	51852
QUOTATION:	O, but they say the tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony. Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain, For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. He that no more must say is listened more Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose. More are men’s ends marked than their lives before. The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
ATTRIBUTION:	William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British poet. King Richard II (II, i). OHFP. The Unabridged William Shakespeare, William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, eds. (1989) Running Press.
BIOGRAPHY:	Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:	Shakespeare Collection.