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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8 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Naiads

Naiads: You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand'ring brooks, With your sedg'd crowns and ever harmiess looks, Leave your crisp'd channels…

Name

Name: Brutus and Cæsar: what should be in that Cæsar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as…

Narration, Long

Narration, Long: No more yet of this; For 'tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor Befitting this first meeting

Nature

Nature: Nature hath meal, and bran; contempt, and grace.

Neglect

Neglect: O, then, beware; Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves: Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank…

News

News: Let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about; so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts; Of…

Night

Night: When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fill the wide vessel of the universe.

Nun

Nun: Question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood,

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