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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27 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Habit

Habit: For use almost can change the stamp of nature And either curb the devil, or throw him out

Humble

Humble: Stoop, boys: this gate Instructs you how to adore the heavens; and bows you To morning's holy office: The gates of monarchs Are…

Hanging

Hanging: O the charity of a penny cord! it sums up thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and creditor but it: of what's past, is…

Hangmen

Hangmen: Some of the best of them were hereditary hangmen.

Happiness

Happiness: Hitting Each object with a joy; the counterchange

Harmony Of The Spheres

Harmony Of The Spheres: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the…

Hatred

Hatred: Were half to half the world by th' ears, and he Upon my party, I'd revolt, to make Only my wars with him: he is a lion C.il That I…

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 will…

Heir-Loom

Heir-Loom: Of six preceding ancestors, that gem Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, Hath it been own'd and worn. A. W. v.3 It is…

Herne's Oak

Herne'S Oak: There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hunter, Some time a keeper here in Windsor forest, Doth all the winter time, at…

Hero, Military, Pretended

Hero, Military, Pretended: Such fellows are perfect in great commanders' names: and they will learn you by rote where services are done.

Hesitation

Hesitation: Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, - A thought, which…

Highwaymen

Highwaymen: Gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.

Historian

Historian: Instructed by the antiquary times, He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.

Hit

Hit: A hit, a very palpable hit.

Holiday

Holiday: To solemnize this day, the glorious sun Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; Turning, with splendour of his precious eye…

Homage Of Simplicity

Homage Of Simplicity: For never any thing can be amiss, When simpleness and duty tender it.

Home-Breeding

Home-Breeding: Out of your proof we speak: we, poor unfledg'd, Have never wing'd from view o' the nest; nor know not What air's from home.

Honesty

Honesty: Ay, Sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Honour

Honour: The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay A jewel in a…

Hope

Hope: The ample proposition that hope makes In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters Grow…

Horns

Horns: Why, horns; which such as you are fain to be beholden

Horror

Horror: But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul…

Humility

Humility: Often to our comfort shall we find The sharded beetle in a safer hold Than is the full-wing'd eagle.

Humour

Humour: "The humour of it," quoth 'a! here's a fellow frights humour out of its wits.

Hunting

Hunting: Say, thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy: Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.

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