Familiar Quotations
A COLLECTION OF FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS.
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COMPLETE INDICES OF AUTHORS AND SUBJECTS.
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[PREFACE:]
The object of this work is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for numerous phrases and familiar quotations which have become "household words."
This Collection, originally made without any view of publication, has been considerably enlarged by additions from an English work on a similar plan, and is now sent forth with the hope that it may be found a convenient book of reference.
Though perhaps imperfect in some respects, it is believed to possess the merit of accuracy, as the quotations have been taken from the original sources.
Should this be favorably received, endeavors will be made to make it more worthy of the approbation of the public in a future edition.
A COLLECTION OF
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS
HOLY SCRIPTURES.
OLD TESTAMENT.
Genesis ii. 18.
It is not good that the man should be alone
Genesis iii. 19.
For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Genesis iv. 9.
Am I my brother's keeper?
Genesis iv. 13.
My punishment is greater than I can bear
Genesis ix. 6.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.
Genesis xvi. 12.
His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
Genesis xlii. 38.
Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Genesis xlix. 4.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Deuteronomy xix. 21.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy xxxii. 10.
He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Judges xvi. 9.
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson.
Ruth i. 16.
For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.
Samuel xiii. 14.
A man after his own heart.
Samuel i. 20.
Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon
Samuel i. 23.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.
Samuel i. 25.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
Samuel i. 26.
Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Samuel xii. 7.
And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
Kings ix, 7.
A proverb and a by-word among all people,
Kings xviii. 21.
How long halt ye between two opinions?
Kings xviii. 44.
Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand.
Kings xix. 12.
A still, small voice.
Kings xx. 11.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
Kings iv. 40.
There is death in the pot.
Job i. 21.
The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the
Lord.
Job iii. 17.
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest.
Job v. 7.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job xvi. 2.
Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job xix. 25.
I know that my Redeemer liveth.
Job xxviii. 18.
The price of wisdom is above-rubies.
Job xxix. 15.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job xxxi. 35.
That mine adversary had written a book.
Job xxxviii. 11.
Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Psalm xvi. 6.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places.
Psalm xviii. 10.
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Psalm xxiii. 2.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures he leadeth me beside the still waters.
Psalm xxiii. 4.
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalm xxxvii. 25.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Psalm xxxvii. 35.
Spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Psalm xxxvii. 37.
Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.
Psalm xxxix. 3.
While I was musing the fire burned.
Psalm xlv. 1.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm lv. 6.
Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
Psalm lxxii. 9.
His enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalm lxxxv. 10.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalm xc. 9.
We spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalm cvii. 27.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
Psalm cxxvii. 2.
He giveth his beloved sleep.
Psalm cxxxiii. 1.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
Psalm cxxxvii. 5.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Psalm cxxxvii. 2.
We hanged our harps on the willows.
Psalm cxxxix. 14.
For I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Proverbs iii. 17.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Proverbs xi. 14.
In the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs xiii. 12.
Hope deferred maksth the heart sick.
Proverbs xiv. 9.
Fools make a mock at sin.
Proverbs xiv. 10.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness.
Proverbs xiv. 34.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Proverbs xv. 1.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Proverbs xv. 17.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Proverbs xvi. 18.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs xvi. 31.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.
Proverbs xviii. 14.
A wounded spirit who can bear?
Proverbs xxii. 6.
Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs xxiii. 5.
For riches certainly make themselves wings.
Proverbs xxiv. 33.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
Proverbs xxv. 22.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
Proverbs xxvi. 13.
There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Proverbs xxvii. 1.
Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Proverbs xxviii. 1.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Ecclesiastes i. 9.
There is no new thing under the sun.
Ecclesiastes i. 14.
All is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes v. 12.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.
Ecclesiastes vii. 2.
It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.
Ecclesiastes vii. 16.
Be not righteous overmuch
Ecclesiastes ix. 4.
For a living dog is better than a dead lion,
Ecclesiastes ix. 10.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
Ecclesiastes ix. 11.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Ecclesiastes xi. 1.
Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.
Ecclesiastes xii. 1.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.
Ecclesiastes xii. 5.
And the grasshopper shall be a burden.
Ecclesiastes xii. 5.
Man goeth to his long home.
Ecclesiastes xii. 6.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecclesiastes xii. 7.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes xii. 8.
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes xii. 12.
Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Isaiah xi. 6.
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.
Isaiah xxviii. 10.
Precept upon precept; line upon line: here a little, and there a little.
Isaiah xxxviii. 1.
Set thine house in order.
Isaiah xl. 6.
All flesh is grass.
Isaiah xl. 15.
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance.
Isaiah xlii. 3.
A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench.
Isaiah liii. 7.
He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
Isaiah lx. 22.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
Isaiah lxi. 3.
To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
Isaiah lxiv. 6.
We all do fade as a leaf.
Jeremiah vii. 3.
Amend your ways and your doings.
Jeremiah viii. 22.
Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there?
Jeremiah xiii. 23.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Ezekiel xviii. 2.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Daniel v. 27.
Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
Daniel vi. 12.
The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Hosea viii. 7.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Micah iv. 3.
And they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.
Micah iv. 4.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree.
Habakkuk ii. 2.
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Malachi iv. 2.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
Ecelesiasticus xiii. 1.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Ecelesiasticus xiii. 7.
He will laugh thee to scorn.
COMMON PRAYER.
Morning Prayer.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
Psalm cv. 18.
The iron entered into his soul. Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent.
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
The Burial Service.
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
NEW TESTAMENT.
Matthew ii. 18.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
Matthew iv. 4.
Man shall not live by bread alone.
Matthew v. 13.
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?
Matthew v. 14.
Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid.
Matthew vi. 3.
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Matthew vi. 21.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Matthew vi. 24.
Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.
Matthew vi. 28.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
Matthew vi. 34.
Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew vii. 6.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Matthew vii. 7.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Matthew viii. 20.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.
Matthew ix. 37.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few.
Matthew x. 16.
Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew x. 30.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Matthew xii. 33.
The tree is known by his fruit.
Matthew xii. 34.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew xiii. 57.
A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
Matthew xiv. 27.
Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew xv. 14.
And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew xv. 27.
Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Matthew xvi. 23.
Get thee behind me, Satan.
Matthew xvi. 26.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew xvii. 4.
Matthew xix. 6.
What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.
Matthew xix. 24.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew xx. 15.
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?
Matthew xxii. 14.
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Matthew xxiii. 24.
Ye blind guides! which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Matthew xxiii. 27.
For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
Matthew xxiv. 28.
For wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Matthew xxv. 29.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Matthew xxvi. 41.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Mark iv. 9.
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Mark v. 9.
My name is Legion.
Mark ix. 44.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Luke iii. 9.
And now also the ax is laid unto the root of the trees.
Luke iv. 23.
Physician, heal thyself.
Luke x. 37.
Go, and do thou likewise.
Luke x. 42.
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Luke xi. 23.
He that is not with me is against me.
Luke xii. 19.
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
Luke xii. 35.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning.
Luke xvi. 8.
For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Luke xvii. 2.
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
Luke xvii. 32.
Remember Lot's wife.
Luke xix. 22.
Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee.
John i. 29.
Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!
John i. 46.
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
John iii. 3.
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John iii. 8.
The wind bloweth where it listeth.
John v. 35.
He was a burning and a shining light.
John vi. 12.
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
John vii. 24.
Judge not according to the appearance.
John xii. 8.
For the poor always ye have with you.
John xii, 35.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
John xiv. 1.
Let not your heart be troubled.
John xiv. 2.
In my Father's house are many mansions.
John xv. 13.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Acts ix. 5.
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Acts xx. 35.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Romans ii. 11.
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans vi. 23.
For the wages of sin is death.
Romans viii. 28.
And we know that all things work together or good to them that love God.
Romans xii. 16.
Be not wise in your own conceits.
Romans xii. 20.
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Romans xii. 21.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans xiii. 1.
The powers that be are ordained of God,
Romans xiii. 7.
Render therefore to all their dues.
Romans xiii. 10.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
Romans xiv. 5.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
1 Corinthians iii. 6.
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians iii. 13.
Every man's work shall be made manifest,
1 Corinthians v. 3.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
1 Corinthians v. 6.
Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
1 Corinthians vii. 31.
For the fashion of this world passeth away,
1 Corinthians ix. 22.
I am made all things to all men.
1 Corinthians x. 12.
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1 Corinthians xiii. 1.
As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 Corinthians xiii. 11.
When I was a child I spake as a child.
1 Corinthians xiii. 12.
For now we see through a glass, darkly.
1 Corinthians xv. 33.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Corinthians xv. 47.
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
1 Corinthians xv. 55.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
2 Corinthians v. 7.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians vi. 2.
Behold, now is the accepted time,
2 Corinthians vi. 8.
By evil report and good report.
Galatians vi. 5.
For every man shall bear his own burden,
Galatians vi. 7.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Ephesians iv. 26.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
Philippians i. 21.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Colossians ii. 21.
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
1 Thessalonians i. 3.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.
1 Thessalonians v. 21.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
1 Timothy iii. 3,
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
1 Timothy v. 18.
The laborer is worthy of his reward.
1 Timothy v. 23.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.
1 Timothy vi. 10.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
2 Timothy iv. 7.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Titus i. 15.
Unto the pure all things are pure.
Hebrews xi. 1.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews xii. 6.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
Hebrews xiii. 2.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
James i. 12.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life.
James iii. P
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
James iv. 7.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter iv. 8.
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1 Peter v. 8.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
2 Peter iii. 10.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.
1 John iv. 18.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Revelation ii. 10.
Be thou faithful unto death.
Revelation ii. 27.
He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
Revelation xxii. 13.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
SHAKESPEARE.
TEMPEST.
Act i. Sc. 2.
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
Act i. Sc. 2.
I will be correspondent to command,
And do my spiriting gently.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
A very ancient and fishlike smell.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Our revels row are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like an insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA.
Act i. Sc. 2.
I have no other but a woman's reason;
I think him so, because I think him so.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
To make a virtue of necessity.
Act iv. Sc. 4.
Is she not passing fair?
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
Act v. Sc. 1.
They say, there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
TWELFTH NIGHT.
Act i. Sc. 1.
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.—
That strain again—it had a dying fall;
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odor.
Act i. Sc, 3.
I am sure care's an enemy to life.
Act i. Sc. 5.
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Act ii. Sc. 3.
Dost thou think, because them art virtuous,
there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Act ii. Sc. 4.
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And, with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat, like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
Act iii. Sc, 2.
Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Spirits are not finely touched
But to fine issues.
Act i. Sc. 5.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
O, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
But man, proud man!
Drest in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven
As make the angels weep.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Take, O take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn;
But my kisses bring again,
Seals of love, but sealed in vain.[1]
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
Act i. Sc. 1.
He hath indeed better bettered expectation.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Friendship is constant in all other things,
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no other agent.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
Act ii. Sc. 3.
Sits the wind in that corner?
Act ii. Sc. 3.
When I said I should die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Some, Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
Everyone can master a grief, but he that
Lath it.
Act iii. Sc. 3.
Are you good men and true?
Act iii. Sc. 3.
Is most tolerable, and not to be endured.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Comparisons are odorous.
Act iv. Sc. 2.
O that he were here to write me down—an ass!
Act iv. Sc. 2.
A fellow that had losses.
Act v. Sc. 1.
For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.
Act i. Sc. 1.
But earthly happier is the rose distilled
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Ah me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Act i. Sc. 2.
A proper man as any one shall see in a summer's day.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
In maiden meditation, fancy free.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
I'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted.
Act v. Sc. 1.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
A merrier man,
Within the limit of becoming mirth,
I never spent an hour's talk withal.
Act v. Sc. 1.
He draweth the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
MERCHANT OF VENICE.
Act i. Sc. 1.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Act i. Sc. 1.
I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Act i, Sc. 1.
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing; more than any man in all
Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them: and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Even there, where merchants most do congregate.
Act i. Sc. 3.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe,
Act i. Sc. 3.
Many a time, and oft, the Rialto, have you rated me.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Act ii, Sc. 6.
All things that are,
Are with more spirits chased than enjoyed.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
All that glisters is not gold.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
I am a Jew: hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
Act iii. Sc. 5.
Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?
Act iv. Sc. 1.
The quality of mercy is not strained;
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed;
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes,
Act iv. Sc. 1.
A Daniel come to judgment.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Is it so nominated in the bond.
I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond?
Act iv. Sc. 1.
I have thee on the hip
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word
Act v. Sc. 1.
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Act v. Sc. 1.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
Act v. Sc. 1.
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
Act v. Sc. 1.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
AS YOU LIKE IT.
Act i. Sc. 2.
Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.
Act i. Sc. 2.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Cel. Not a word?
Ros. Not one to throw at a dog.
Act i. Sc. 3.
O how full of briers is this working-day world!
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
And this our life, exempt from public haunts,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
"Poor deer," quoth he, "thou mak'st a testament,
As wordlings do, giving thy sum of more
To that which had too much."
Act ii. Sc. 3.
And He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age!
Act ii. Sc. 3.
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
And railed on lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms....
And looking on it with lack-luster eye,
"Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the
world wags.
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale."
Motley's the only wear.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,
To blow on whom I please.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
The why is plain as way to parish church.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
And then, the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then, the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth And then the justice,
Full of wise saws and modern instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
Last scene of all,
That ends this strange, eventful history,
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion.
Act ii. Sc. 7.
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?
Act iii. Sc. 8.
Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
Pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.
Act v. Sc. 2.
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!
Act v. Sc. 4.
Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If.
Epilogue.
Good wine needs no bush.
TAMING OF THE SHREW.
Act iv. Sc. 1,
And thereby hangs a tale.
Act v. Sc. 2.
My cake is dough.
WINTER'S TALE.
Act iv. Sc. 2.
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes,
Or Cytherea's breath.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.
Act i. Sc. 1.
It were all one,
That I should love a bright, particular star,
And think to wed it, he is so above me.
Act v. Sc. 3.
Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear.
COMEDY OF ERRORS.
Act v. Sc. 1.
They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain,
A mere anatomy.
MACBETH.
Act i. Sc. 1.
When shall we three meet again,
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Act i. Sc. 1.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Act i. Sc. 3.
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
Act i. Sc. 4.
Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it.
Act i. Sc. 4.
There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face.
Act i. Sc. 5.
Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full of the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Act i. Sc. 5.
Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men
May read strange matters.
Act i. Sc. 7.
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly.
Act i. Sc. 7.
That but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here.
Act i. Sc. 7.
This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips.
Act i. Sc. 7.
Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking off.
Act i. Sc, 7.
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other—.
Act i. Sc. 7.
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people.
Act i. Sc. 7.
Letting I dare not wait upon I would.
Like the poor cat i' the adage.
Act i. Sc. 7.
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none.
Act i. Sc. 7.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle towards my hand?
Act ii. Sc. 1.
Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
The very stones prate of my whereabout.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
For it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell!
Act ii. Sc. 2.
The attempt, and not the deed,
Confound us.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
Infirm of purpose!
Act ii. Sc. 3.
The labor we delight in, physics pain.
Act ii. Sc. 3.
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.
Act ii. Sc. 4.
A falcon, towering in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed.
Act iii. Sc, 1.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren scepter in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Mur. We are men, my liege.
Mac. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
We have scotched the snake, not killed it.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
Duncan is in his grave!
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
But now, I am cabined, cribbed, confined bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Thou canst not say, I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!
Act iii. Sc. 4.
What man dare, I dare.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle,
You that mingle may.[2]
Act iv. Sc. 1.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
A deed without a name.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
Show his eyes, and grieve his heart!
Come like shadows, so depart.
Act iv. Sc. 1.
What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Act iv. Sc. 1.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam,
At one fell swoop?
Act iv. Sc. 3.
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
O, I could play the woman with mine eyes,
And braggart with my tongue!
Act v. Sc. 3.
My way of life
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but, in their stead,
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Act v. Sc. 3.
Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies,
That keep her from her rest.
Act v. Sc. 3.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
Act v. Sc, 3.
Throw physic to the dogs: I'll none of it.
Act v. Sc. 3.
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.
Act v, Sc. 5.
Hang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still, They come.
Act v. Sc. 5.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Act v. Sc. 5.
Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.
Act. v. Sc. 7.
I bear a charmed life.
Act. v. Sc. 7.
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.
Act v. Sc. 7.
Lay on, Macduff;
And damned be him that first cries, Hold, enough!
KING JOHN.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
For courage mounteth with occasion.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward,
Thou little valiant, great in villany!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But when her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety!
Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs.
Act iii. Sc. 4.
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Act iv. Sc. 2.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
Act iv. Sc. 2.
Now oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!
KING RICHARD II.
Act i. Sc. 3.
Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By bare imagination of a feast?
Act i. Sc. 3.
The apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
FIRST PART OF KING HENRY IV.
Act i. Sc. 2.
'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
Act i. Sc. 2.
He will give the devil his due.
Act i. Sc. 3.
And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Act i. Sc. 3.
By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,
To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon.
Act ii. Sc. 1.
I know a trick worth two of that.
Act ii. Sc. 4.
Call you that backing of your friends? a plague upon such backing!
Act ii. Sc. 4.
A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.
Act ii. Sc. 4.
Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.
Act ii. Sc. 4.
I was a coward on instinct.
Act ii. Sc. 4.
No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man: But will they come when you do call for them?
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Tell truth and shame the devil.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew,
Than one of these same meter ballad-mongers.
Act iii. Sc. 3.
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?
Act v. Sc. 4.
I could have better spared a better man.
Act v. Sc. 4.
The better part of valor is—discretion.
Act v. Sc. 4.
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you, I was down, and out of breath; and so was he: but we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.
SECOND PART OF KING HENRY IV.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless.
So dull, so dead in look, so woebegone,
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,
And would have told him, half his Troy was burned.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remembered knolling a departed friend.
Act i. Sc. 2.
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Act ii. Sc. 2.
He hath eaten me out of house and home.
Act ii. Sc. 3.
He was, indeed, the glass
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Sleep, gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Act iii. Sc. 1.
With all appliances and means to boot.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Act iv. Sc. 4.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.
Act iv. Sc. 4.
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.
Act v. Sc. 3.
Under which king, Bezonian? Speak, or die.
KING HENRY V.
Act i. Sc. 1.
Consideration like an angel came,
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.
Act i, Sc. 1.
When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
Act ii Sc. 1.
Base is the slave that pays.
Act ii. Sc. 3.
'A babbled of green fields.
Act iv. Chorus.
With busy hammers closing rivets up,
Give dreadful note of preparation.
Act iv. Sc. 3.
Then shall our names,
Familiar in their mouths as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster—
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
FIRST PART OF KING HENRY VI.
Act v. Sc. 3.
She's beautiful; and therefore to be wooed:
She is a woman; therefore to be won.
SECOND PART OF KING HENRY VI.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.
Act iii. Sc. 2.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just;
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.