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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47 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Eagerness

Eagerness: My desire, More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth. T. N. iii.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes: Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions: and the teeming earth Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd…

Echo

Echo: Let us sit, And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns, As if a double hunt were heard…

Efforts, Abortive

Efforts, Abortive: How my achievements mock me!

Egotism

Egotism: There's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.

Elephant

Elephant: The Elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy: his courtesy: his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

Elevation Of Soul

Elevation Of Soul: I have Immortal longings in me.

Eloquence

Eloquence: Some there are Who on the tip of their persuasive tongue Carry all arguments and questions deep ۶ And replication prompt, and…

Elves

Elves: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chace the ebbing Neptune…

Emotion

Emotion: I have felt so many quirks of joy, and grief, That the first face of neither, on the start,

Emotions, Conflicting

Emotions, Conflicting: was fought in Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband; another elevated that the oracle was…

Emulation

Emulation: For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast; keep then the path: For emulation hath a thousand sons…

End

End: The long day's task is done, And we must sleep.

Enemies

Enemies: You have many enemies, that know not Why they are so; but, like to village curs, Bark when their fellows do.

England

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

English, The

English, The: Would I had never trod this English earth, Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it! Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows…

Enjoyment, Frequency Of, Diminishes Pleasure

Enjoyment, Frequency Of, Diminishes Pleasure: The nightingale in summer's front doth sing, And stops his pipe in growth of riper days; Not…

Enlargement

Enlargement: Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow room.

Enmity

Enmity: If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who

Enterprise

Enterprise: Impossible be strange attempts, to those That weigh their pains in sense; and do suppose What hath been cannot be.

Envy

Envy: Know you not, master, to some kind of men Their graces serve them but as enemies ? No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, Are…

Epithets

Epithets: Truly, master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least.

Espousals

Espousals: Let still the woman take An elder than herself, so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy…

Evasion

Evasion: What trick, what device, what starting hole, canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparent shame.

Evening

Evening: Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood.

Evil

Evil: There is some soul of goodness in things evil Would men observingly distil it out: For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers…

Exaltation

Exaltation: Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top; Safe out of fortune's shot: and sits aloft, Secure of thunder's crack, or lightning's flash…

Examination

Examination: Peace; sit you down, And let me wring your heart; for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff; If damned custom have not…

Example

Example: Thieves for their robbery have authority

Exasperation

Exasperation: Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled, and stung with pismires, when I hear Of this vile politician…

Excellence

Excellence: They are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.

Excess

Excess: As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint: our natures do pursue (Like rats…

Excitement

Excitement: And thereof came it that the man was mad.

Excuses Sometimes Improper

Excuses Sometimes Improper: When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness: And, oftentimes…

Expectation

Expectation: Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits, Where hope is coldest, and despair most…

Expediency

Expediency: Construe the times to their necessities. H. IV. PT. II. iv.

Experience

Experience: Experience is by industry achiev'd,

Expiring

Expiring: Vex not his ghost; O let him pass, he hates him, That would upon the rack of this tough world

Explanation

Explanation: To my unfolding lend a gracious ear; And let me find a charter in your voice, To assist my simpleness.

Explosion

Explosion: It shall go hard, But I will delve one yard below their mines, And blow them to the moon.

Exposure

Exposure: Come, come; Lend me a light. Know we this face, or no?

Expression, Lascivious

Expression, Lascivious: Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip; Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look…

Expulsion

Expulsion: I cannot tell, good Sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.

Extacy

Extacy: O Helicanus, strike me, honor'd Sir; Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear…

Extenuation

Extenuation: Quit all offences with as clear excuse, As well as, I am doubtless, I can purge Myself of many I am charg'd withal: Yet such…

Exterior, Plausible

Exterior, Plausible: There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain; And though that nature, with a beauteous wall, Doth oft close in…

Eye

Eye: Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze.

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