Lord Byron - I Henry IV 2012 & William Shakespeare - Lord Chesterfield - Jane Austen - The Iron Lady 2011 -
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company. Jean-Paul Sartre
It is better to be alone than in bad company. George Washington
If I could always read I should never feel the want of company. Lord Byron
Thou cam’st on earth to make the earth my hell ...
What comfortable hour canst thou name
That ever graced me in thy company? William Shakespeare, Richard III IV iv 167 & 174-175, Duchess of York to King Richard
Villainous company hath been the spoil of me. I Henry IV 2012 starring Roger Allam & Oliver Cotton & Jamie Parker & Joseph Timms & Sam Crane & Jason Baughan & Patrick Brennan & William Gaunt & Christopher Godwin & Daon Broni et al, director Dominic Dromgoole, Globe Theatre Sky Arts, Falstaff
I am withered like an old apple-john. Well, I’ll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking. I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. And I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of. I am a peppercorn, a brewer’s horse – the inside of a church! Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV III iii 4-10, Sir John to Russell
My soul shall thine keep company to heaven. William Shakespeare, Henry V IV vi 16, Exeter
For I am best
When least in company. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night I iv 36-37, Orsino
Take the tone of the company that you are in. Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. Jane Austen, Persuasion
I’ve always preferred the company of men. The Iron Lady 2011 starring Meryl Streep & Alexandra Roach & Jim Broadbent & Harry Lloyd & Anthony Head & Richard E Grant & Iain Glen & Olivia Colman & Nicholas Farrell & Susan Brown & Martin Wimbush et al, director Phyllida Lloyd, Thatcher