Careful Words

such (n.)

such (adv.)

such (adj.)

Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,

Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3.

Such and so various are the tastes of men.

Mark Akenside (1721-1770): Pleasures of the Imagination. Book iii. Line 567.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words

That aged ears play truant at his tales,

And younger hearings are quite ravished;

So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;

He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. ix.

Such, mistress, such Nan,

Such master, such man.

Thomas Tusser (Circa 1515-1580): Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. April's Abstract.

So many worlds, so much to do,

So little done, such things to be.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. lxxiii. Stanza 1.