WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 15 May 2026 18:38:51 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg spotlighting – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shakespeare, William -- King John, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 30ff (4.2.30-34) (1596) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/4831/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/4831/#respond Wed, 12 May 2004 19:34:55 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=4831 PEMBROKE: And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by th’ excuse,
As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patched.


William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
King John, Act 4, sc. 2, l. 30ff (4.2.30-34) (1596)
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