A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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The Book

6 subjects

A

56 subjects

B

51 subjects

C

92 subjects

D

91 subjects

E

47 subjects

F

49 subjects

G

26 subjects

H

27 subjects

I

45 subjects

J

8 subjects

K

13 subjects

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Henry IV

232 passages

Hamlet

202 passages

King Lear

176 passages

Othello

165 passages

Henry VI

151 passages

Troilus and Cressida

138 passages

The Plays A–Z

All 34 voices in the book

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Heart

Heart: A good leg will fall; a strait back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow bald; a fair face…

Bombast

Bombast: These signs have mark'd me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.

Trap

Trap: Now is the woodcock near the gin.

Parting

Parting: Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say-good night, till it be morrow. R. J. ii. 2. For so long As he could make…

Property

Property: What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong? You have among you many a purchas'd slave; Which, like your asses, and…

England

England: This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden…

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