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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26 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Gaiety

Gaiety: See, where she comes, apparell'd like the spring. P. P. i. 1. Flora, peering in April's front.

Gallants

Gallants: Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state. Travell'd gallants That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.

Gentleman

Gentleman: I'll be sworn thou art; Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee five-fold blazon.

Gentlemen

Gentlemen: We are gentlemen, That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes,

Geography

Geography: Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. M. V. i.

Ghost

Ghost: For it is, as the air, invulnerable,

Gifts

Gifts: Well, God give them wisdom that have it: and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Glory

Glory: Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 'Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.

Gold

Gold: Saint-seducing gold.

Good Man, Commercial Definition Of A

Good Man, Commercial Definition Of A: My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me, he is sufficient. M.V. i.3.

Good Manners

Good Manners: When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's hands, and they unwash'd too, 'tis a foul thing. R. J. i.

Goodness To Be Always Preferred

Goodness To Be Always Preferred: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. M. iv.

Good Things

Good Things: Well, I cannot last for ever: But it was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too…

Good Women

Good Women: One in ten, quoth a'! an we might have a good woman born but every blazing star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery…

Good Works

Good Works: How far that little candle throws his beams!

Gormandizing

Gormandizing: Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but bank'rout quite the wits. L. L. i. 1. Make less thy…

Grandam

Grandam: A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doating title of a mother; They are as children, but one step below; Even of…

Gratitude

Gratitude: I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, Which I did store to be my foster nurse, When service…

Grave

Grave: Secure from worldly chances and mishaps! Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned grudges; here are no…

Gravitation

Gravitation: And you may know by my size, that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down.

Gravity, Affected

Gravity, Affected: There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain…

Greatness

Greatness: Some are born great:-some achieve greatness;-some have greatness thrust upon them.

Greeting

Greeting: A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light, and heavy: Welcome: A curse begin at very root of his…

Grief

Grief: Men Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, Their counsel turns to passion…

Group

Group: O thus, quoth Dighton, lay the gentle babes, Thus, thus, quoth Forrest, girdling one another, Within their alabaster innocent arms.

Guilt

Guilt: So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

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