Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband:
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
– William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, Scene 2. After hearing the terrible news of her cousin Tybalt’s killing by Romeo, Juliet wonders which side should she take, that of Romeo or her family. Fighting off tears, she reasons that she cannot cry for Tybalt, because he would have killed Romeo.