I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
William Shakespeare
Friendship
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man.
William Shakespeare
Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.