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Messengers Quotes

Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.

William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.253, BookCaps Study Guides

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

Edmund Spenser, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1814). “Spenser's Sonnets”, p.38

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Jacqueline Winspear (2011). “Maisie Dobbs Bundle #2, An Incomplete Revenge and Among the Mad: Books 5 and 6”, p.31, Henry Holt and Company

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Sophocles (2012). “Antigone”, p.11, Courier Corporation

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”