'a; . - S ■!-• _• ■ Shakespearean Quotations SUBJECTS CLASSIFIED AND ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED UjjlLi. COMPILED BY EMMA M. RAWLINS ^ NEW YORK Published by The Author 148 St. Ann's Avenue 1900 I'WO COPIES HECEiVK^, Library of Q%ugttt% i}if\c4 of t|g APfU61900 50G66 Copyright, 1898, by EMMA M. RAWLINS SECOND COPY. TO THIS LITTLE BOOK IS MOST GRA TEFULL Y INSCRIBED PREFATORY NOTE. The compiler's apology for oflFering this little work to the public is that, during a wide expe- rience as teacher, she has found great need for such a book of reference. It is therefore hoped that the convenient size, clear type, and classification of subjedls of this manual will recommend it to students of Shakes- peare. All the so-called '* Familiar'* quotations are given, with many others, which, perhaps, are not so well known. But few of the selections are more than two lines, thus making them easy to memorize. An appendix is subjoined, however, for refer- ence to special longer passages. E. M. R. CONTENTS Angels . Ambition Brain Beauty . Book Conscience Courtesy Courage Custom . Curse Calumny Captain . Cupid Candle . Coward . Death . Dagger . Devil Divinity Doubts : Dogs Enemy . Earth Friends . Faults . Fortune . Fools . 9 II 12 13 14 16 19 20 20 21 22 23 23 25 25 26 28 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 37 38 40 Ji'ashion . 42 Fancy 43 Fates 43 Flattery 44 God 45 Grief . . . 46 Ghost . . 48 Going 49 Gold 49 Gifts 50 Hearts . 51 Heaven . 53 Honour . 56 Ingratitude 57 Imagination 59 Innocence 59 Ink 60 Jealousy 60 Judgment 62 Justice . 63 Jests 63 King 64 Love 65 Life 70 Man 71 Men 72 VI SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS Mercy 73 Sleep Music 75 Saint Madnes 76 Sin . Name 78 Slander Offence . 78 Tongue Observation . 79 Time Prayer . 80 Uses Patience 82 Peace . S3 Virtue Pity 85 Villain Philosophy . 86 Women Quarrel . 87 World Remedy . Reason . 88 88 Words War Wit Soul 89 Sorrow . 91 Youth MISCELLANEOUS. A B C D E F G H I J K Appendix 114 L 116 M 119 N 123 126 P 127 R 130 S 130 T 133 V 135 w 136 156 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS ANGELS Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 4. A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. Act V. Sc. I. Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest ! Act V. Sc. 2. O, what may man within him hide. Though angel on the outward side ! Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. C^rse his better angel from his side. OtheUo. Act V. Sc. 2. Some holy angel Fly . . . and unfold His message ere he come. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 6. Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Act IV. Sc. 3. lo SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS Though this is a heavenly angel, hell is here ! Cymbeline. Act II. Sc. 2. By Jupiter, an angel ! or, if not. An earthly paragon ! Act III. Sc. 6. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold 'st, But in his motion like an angel sings. Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. i. If angels fight, Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right. King Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2. And vaulted with such ease into his seat. As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds. King Henry IV. Part I. Act. IV. Sc. i. There is a good angel about him. Part II. Act II. Sc. 4. Consideration, like an angel, came And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. King Henry V. Act I. Sc. i. Good angels guard thee! King Richard III. Act IV. Sc. i. Good angels guard thy battle. Act V. Sc. 3. Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts. King Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. i. SHAKE3PKARE)AN QUOTAI'IONS II Now, good angels Fly o'er thy . . . head, and shade thy person Under their blessed wings! Act V. Sc. I. AMBITION / Thy ambition, Thou^carlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land. / King Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Ibid. But 'tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder. Julius Csesar. Act. II. Sc. I. When that the poor have cried, Csesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff*. Act III. Sc. 2. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition. Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. And ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him. Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. i. Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. 12 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS BRAIN O, there has been much throwing about of brains! Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. Sleep rock thy brain! Act III. Sc. 2. This is the very coinage of your brain. Act III. Sc. 4. Cudgel thy brains no more about it. ActV. Sc. I. His pure brain, Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling- house, Doth by the idle comments that it makes Foretell the ending of mortalit3^ King John. Act V. Sc. 7. My brain 1*11 prove the female to my soul. My soul the father. King Richard II. Act V. Sc. 5. Brain him with his lady's fan. King Henry IV. Act II. Sc. 3. My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. King Henry VI. Part II. Act III. Sc. 2. Raze out the written troubles of the brain. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 4. SHAKKSPKAREAN QUOTA'TIONS I3 The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. The Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'er reach- ing as this? Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 5. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. If a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear nothing handsome about him. Act V. Sc. 4. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. Othello. Act 11. Sc. 3. BEAUTY Then let her beauty be her wedding dower. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act III. Sc. i. O beauty, Till now I never knew thee! King Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 4. Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IL Sc. i. 14 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, That when she dies with beauty dies her store. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. I. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! Act I. Sc. 5. Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Act III. So. 2, Ay, beauty *s princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough. King Henry VI. Part I. Act V. Sc. 3. *Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud. Part III. Act I. Sc. 4. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 5. For beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. i. Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. Passionate Pilgrim. BOOK That book in many's eyes doth share the glory. That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. Romeo and Juliet. Act I. Sc. 3. You kiss by the book. Act I. Sc. 5. shake;spe:arkan quotai^ions 15 One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! Act V. Sc. 2. In nature's infinite book of secrecy A little I can read. Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 2. Deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book. The Tempest. Act V. Sc. i. I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act I. Sc. i. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. i. Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven. King Richard IL Act IV. Sc. i. I'll read enough, When I do see the very book indeed, Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself. Ibid. Who hath not heard it spoken How deep you were within the books of God ? King Henry IV. Part IL Act IV. Sc. 2. I'll note you in my book of memory. King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. Sc. 4. Our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally. Part 1 1. Act IV. So. 7. 1 6 SHAKKSPKARBAN QUOTATIONS Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded The history of all her secret thoughts. King Richard III. Act III. So. 5. Books in the running brooks. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. i. These trees shall be my books And in their barks my thoughts I'll character. Act III. Sc. 2. I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. i. CONSCIENCE. So much my conscience whispers in your ear. Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear. King John. Act. I. Sc, i. Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just. King Henry IV. Part I. Act V. Sc. 2. What you speak is in your conscience washed As pure as sin with baptism. King Henry V. Act I. Sc. 2. And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. King Henry VI. Part II. Act III. Sc. 2. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! King Richard III. Act I. Sec. 3. Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me. Act I. Sc. 4. SHAKE^SPKARKAN QUCTATIONS 1 7 Every man's conscience is a thousand swords. Act V. Sc. 2. O, coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! Act V. Sc. 3. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues. Ibid. Conscience is but a word that cowards use. Act V. So. 4. O my . . . The quiet of my wounded conscience. King Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 2. It seems the marriage with his brother's wife Has crept too near his conscience. Ibid. No, his conscience Has crept too near another lady. King Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 2. But conscience, conscience! O, 'tis a tender place. Act II. Sc. 2. I meant to rectify my conscience. Act II. Sc. 4. There's nothing I have done yet, o' my con- science, Deserves a corner. Act III. Sc. I. A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience. Act III. Sc. 2. 1 8 SHAKKSPEAREAN QUOTATIONS Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testi- mony of a good conscience. Love's Labour's Lost. Act. IV. Sc. 2. Consciences that will not die in debt. Act V. Sc. 2. For policy sits above conscience. Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 2. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. Hamlet. Act IIL Sc. i. Now must your conscience my acquittance seal. Act IV. Sc. 7. Is't not perfec5l conscience, To quit him with this arm ? Act V. Sc. 2. A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. i. Twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and . . . candied be they And melt ere they molest. The Tempest. Act II. Sc. i. Therefore is it most expedient for the wise (if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment To the contrary) to be the trumpet to his own virtues. Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 2. I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still, That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts. Troilus and Cressida. Act V. Sc. 10. SHAKKSPKARE^AN QUOTATIONS 1 9 COURTESY How lie did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy. King Richard II. Act I. Sc. 4. Me rather had my heart might feel your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy. Act III. Sc. 3. And then I stole all courtesy from heaven, And dress' d myself in such humility That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts. King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Sc. 2. If a man will make courtesy and say nothing, he is virtuous. King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. Sc. i. The mirror of all courtesy. King Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. i. I am the very pink of courtesy. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 4. He is not the flower of courtesy. Act II. Sc. 5. In courtesy gives undeserving praise. Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. Why, this is he That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy. Ibid. Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence. Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. i. 20 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS Then is courtesy a turncoat. Ibid. But manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into compliments. Much Ado About Nothing. Act IV. Sc. i. He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond. Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. i. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy. Act V. So. I. I was beset with shame and courtesy. Ibid. How courtesy would seem to cover sin! Pericles. Act I. Sc. i. COURAGE. For courage mounteth with occasion. King John. Act II. Sc. i. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. CUSTOM. Though I am native here And to the nirmner born, it is a custom More honour 'd in the breach than the observance. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 4, SHAKKSPBARBAN QUOTATIONS 21 Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon. Act I. Sc. 5. Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will. Act IV. Sc. 7. Custom hath made it in him a property of easi- ness. Act V. Sc. I. Age can not wither her, not custom stale Her infinite variety. Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. Think of this .... But as a thing of custom, 'tis no other; Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. Nice customs curtsey to great kings. King Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. CURSE The common curse of mankind, folly and igno- rance, be thine in great revenue! Troilus and Cressida. Act II Sc. 3. 'Tis the curse of service Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation. Othello. Act I. Sc. i. 22 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! Act III. Sc. 3. Dreading the curse that money may buy out; And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust, Purchase corrupted pardon of a man. King John. Act III. Sc. i. Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven ? Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses! King Richard III. Act I. Sc. 3. Their curses now lyive where their prayers did. King Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 2. Curses, not loud but deep. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. Cursed be he that moves my bones. Shakespeare's Epitaph. CAI.UMNY Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape caltmmy. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. i. No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 23 CAPTAIN And there at Venice gave His body to that pleasant country's earth, And his pure soul unto his captain, Christ. King Richard II. Act IV. So. i. O Thou, whose captain I account myself, Look on my forces with a gracious eye. King Richard III. Act V. So. 3. That in the captain 's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Measure for Measure. Act 11. So. 2. Who does i' the wars more than his captain can, Becomes his captain's captain. Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. So. i. O, he is the courageous captain of compliments! Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 4. CUPID If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. i. Of this matter Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, That only wounds by hearsay. Act III. Sc. I. Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Ibid. 24 SHAKESPKAREAN QUOTATIONS He hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him. Act III. Sc 2. Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. 2. Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower Hath such force and blessed power. Act IV. Sc. I. He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him. Love's Labour's Lost. Act II. Sc. i. Saint Cupid, then! Act IV. Sc. 3. She'll not be hit With Cupid's artow: she hath Dian's wit. Romeo and Juliet. Act L Sc. i. Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes restitution. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. 5. For I long to see Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly. The Merchant of Venice. Act II. Sc. 9. He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapp'd him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart whole. As You Like It. Act IV, Sc. i. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 25 Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid! Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. i. CANDIyE How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. The Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. i. By these blessed candles of the night. Ibid. Night^s candles are burned out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 5. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Macbeth. Act II. Sc. I. Out, out, brief candle! Act V. Sc. 5. COWARD We'll have a swashing and a martial outside As m.any other mannish cowards have. As You Like It. Act I. Sc. 3. Cowards father cowards and base things sire base. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. A plague of all cowards! King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Sc. 4. I was now a coward on instinc?t. Ibid. 26 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS DEATH O, now doth death line his dead chaps with steel. King John. Act II. Sc. i. Death, death: O amiable lovelv death! 'Act III. Sc. 4. death, made proud with pure and princely beauty! Act IV. Sc. 3. 'Tis strange that death should sing. Act V. Sc. 7. And nothing can we call our own but death. King Richard II. Act III. Sc. 2. 1 were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Sc. 2. Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence. King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. Sc. 5. Thou antic deat'i, which laugh 'st us here to scorn! Act IV. So. 7. Ah, what sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! Part II. Act III. Sc. 3. The worst is death; and death ^411 have his day. King Richard III. Act III. Sc. 2. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 2^ The sense of death is most in apprehension. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. I. Av, but to die, and go we know not where. ERRATA. P. 26, bottom line for Richard '* III." read '* II." P. 40, line 10 from top for Sc. ** 5 " read ** 15." P. 40, line 15 from top for Sc. *' 3 " read *' 2." P. 42, line 2 from top for Sc. *' i " read "3." P. 98, line g from top for Sc. *' 2" read '* i." P. 102, line 7 from top for Part ** II." read ** I." P. 112, line 5 from top for Sc. ** i " read '* 2." P. 114, line 8 from bottom for Sc. ** i " read " 2." P. 114, bottom line for Sc. " 2 " read '* i." P. 124, line II from top for " Othello " read " Macbeth. P. 142, line 6 from top for " III." read ** V." P. 143, line 7 from top for Sc. ** 2 " read ** 7." P. 154, line 3 from top for Act '* III." read " II." Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Act V. Sc. 2. 26 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS DEATH O, now doth death line his dead chaps with steel. King John. Act II. Sc. i. ran ii. Act 111. Sc. 3. The worst is death; and death will have his day. King Richard III. Act III. Sc. 2. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 2^ The sense of death is most in apprehension. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. i. Ay, but to die, and go we know not where. Ibid. Be absolute for death: either death or life Shall thereby be the sweeter. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. i. Yet in this life lyie hid more thousand deaths, yet death we fear, That makes these odds all even. Ibid. O, death's a great disguiser! Act IV. Sc. 2. When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. Julius Caesar. Act II. Sc. 2. It seems to me most strange that men should fear: Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Ibid. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 5. Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Act V. Sc. 2. 28 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS I would fain die a dry death. The Tempest. Act I. Sc. i. He that dies pays all debts. Act III. Sc. 2. Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie; Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die. Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. i. Out of the jaws of death. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. Done to death by slanderous tongues. Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 3. Speak me fair in death. Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. i. For death remember 'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error. Pericles. Act I. Sc. i. DAGGER Art thou but A dagger of the mind ? Macbeth. Act II. Sc. i. There's daggers in men's smiles. Act II. Sc. 3. This is the air-drawn dagger. Act III. Sc. 4. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 29 She Speaks poniards, and every word stabs. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. I. Hath no man's dagger here a point for me ? Act IV. Sc. I. I will speak daggers to her, but use none. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears. Act III. Sc. 4. For I wear not My dagger in my mouth. Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts! King Henry IV. Part II. Act IV. Sc. 5. DEVIL Some airy devil hovers in the sky And pours down mischief. King John. Act III. Sc. 2. He will give the devil his due. King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Sc. 2. Tell truth and shame the devil. Act III. Sc. I. You are mortal, And mortal eyes can not endure the devil. King Richard III. Act I. Sc. 2. The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. 30 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The de\'il himself. Act III. Sc. I. The devil can cite Scriptures for his purpose. The Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 3. He must needs go that the devil drives. All's Well That Ends Well. Act. I. Sc. 3. 'Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. Macbeth. Act II. Sec. 2. Even- Inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. Othello. Act II. Sec. 3. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. The Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 4. Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. DrV^IXITY There's such divinity- doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would. Hamlet. Act. IV. Sc. 5. There's a di\'inity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. Act V. Sc. 2. SHAKHSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 3 1 They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Merry Wives of Windsor. Act V. Sc. i. DOUBTS Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt. Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 4. But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. Modest doubt is calPd The beacon of the wise. Troilus and Cressida. Act. II. Sc. 2. DOGS I had rather be a dog and bay the moon. Than such a Roman. Julius Caesar. Act IV. Sc. 3. Hounds, and grayhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi- wolves, are clept All by the name of dogs. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. i. If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog, And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold. Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. i. 32 SHAKESPKARKAN QUOI'ATIONS 1 I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus. Act IV. Sc. 3. Give to dogs What thou deny' St to men. Ibid. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. i. And he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him. Act II. Sc. 3. Make them of no more voice Than dogs that are as often beat for barking As, therefore, kept to do so. Coriolanus. Act II. Sc. 3. I have dogs . . . Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase. Titus Andronicus. Act II. Sc. 2. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, too, see they bark at me. King Lear. Act III. Sc. 6. ENEMY O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! Othello. Act II. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS 33 'Tis death to me to be at enmity. King Richard III. Act II. Sc. i. A thing devised by the enemy. Act V. Sc. 3. He would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. King Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7. In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh The enemy more mighty than he seems. King Henry V. Act II. Sc. 4. I am sure care 's an enemy to life. Twelfth Night. Act I. Sc. 3. Security Is mortals* chiefest enemy. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 5. EARTH 1*1 put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. i. For naught so vile that on the earth doth live. But to the earth some special good doth give. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 3. 34 SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS '* Give him a little earth for charity. '' King Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers ! Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. i. The earth has bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. FRIENDS Call you that backing of your friends ? A plague upon such backing! King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Sc. 4. And all my friends which thou must make thy friends Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out. Part II. Act IV. Sc. 5. God keep me from false friends! King Richard III. Act III. Sc. i. For those you make friends And give your hearts to, when they once per- ceive The least rub in your fortunes, fall away lyike water from ye. King Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. i. SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 35 I am wealthy in my friends. Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. All gone! and not One friend to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him ! Act IV. Sc. 2. What viler thing upon the earth than friends Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends! Act IV. Sc. 3. Neither a borrower nor a lender be : ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. Those friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Act I. Sc. 3. Who in want a hollow friend doth try, Directly seasons him his enemy. Act III. Sc. 2. For who not needs shall never lack a friend. Ibid. He that wants money, means and content is without three good friends. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Julius Caesar. Act IV. Sc. 3. 36 SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. I. And do as adversaries do in law, Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2. My friends were poor, but honest. All's Well That Ends Well. Act I. Sc. 3. Now I dare not say I have one friend alive. The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V. Sc. 4. We have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end. Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc, 15. He that is thy friend, indeed, He will help thee in thy need. The Passionate Pilgrim. Every man will be thy friend, Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend. Ibid. Left and abandoned of his velvet friends. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. i. Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose, Nor with sour looks afflict his noble heart. Titus Andronicus. Act I. Sc. I. SHAKKSPBAREAN QUOTATIONS 37 FAUI.TS O, what a world of vile ill-favour' d faults lyooks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! Merry Wives of Windsor. Act III. Sc. 4. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ? Measure for Measure. Act II. Sc. 2. That we were all, as some would seem to be, Free from our faults, as from faults seeming free! Measure for Measure. Act HI. Sc. 2 'Tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature. To reason most absurd. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Timon of Athens. Act HI. Sc. i. And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. King John. Act IV. Sc. 2. The image of a wicked heinous fault lyives in his eye. Ibid. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. Julius Caesar. Act I. Sc. 2. 38 SHAKKSPKAREAN QUOTATIONS All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, leam'd, and conn'd by rote. Act IV. Sc. 3. Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow- fault came to match it. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. FORTUNE Fortune reigns in gifts of the world. As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. One out of suits with fortune. Ibid. My pride fell with my fortunes. Ibid. I^et us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel. Ibid. And raiPd on Idng nothing. Macbeth. Act V. Sc, 5. In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell. The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. I. Seems, Madam! nay, it is; I know not ''seems.*' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black. Sc. 2t SHAKKSPKARBAN QUOTATIONS I71 But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Ibid. Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Ibid. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine. Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 3. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ibid. Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in. Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- ment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy, rich, not gaudy. For the apparal oft proclaims the man. Ibid. 172 SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Ibid. This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firma- ment, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in acflion how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! Act II. Sc. 2. To be, or not to be; that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks SHAKKSPKARKAN QUOTATIONS 1 73 That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep; To sleep; perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respecft That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's con- tumely, The pangs of dispised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry. And lose the name of adlion. Act III. Sc. I. 174 SHAKESPEAREAN QUOTATIONS There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 't is not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves,* what is 't to leave betimes? Act V. Sc. 2. This is the excellent fopper^^ of the world that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own beha\'iour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were \'illains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance: drunk- ards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obed- ience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: ... to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star J King Lear. Act I. Sc. 2. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? Act III. Sc. 4. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. L^ook with thine ears; see how yond justice rails SHAKKSPBARKAN QUOTA'TlONS 1 75 Upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? Act IV. Sc. 6. Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true: 1 have married her: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech. And little bless' d with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Their dearest adlion in the tented field. And little of this great world can I speak More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnished tale deliver Of my whole course of love. Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still questioned me the story of my life From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have passed. Ibid. Jy77~/ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 105 328