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.

Ourage

Ourage: Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviour from the great, Grow great by your example, and put on The…

Ortune

Ortune: Whom Fortune, with her ivory hand, wafts to her; Whose present grace to present slaves and servants * Translates his rivals. * *…

Oak

Oak: The unwedgeable and gnarled oak.

Oaths

Oaths: Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double-damn'd, Swear-thou art honest.

Object

Object: 7 A mote it is, to trouble the mind's eye.

Old And Familiar

Old And Familiar: Now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by, like a weather-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns.

Oblivion

Oblivion: In the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion.

Obsequiousness

Obsequiousness: So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, Come all to help him, and so stop the air By which he should revive: and…

Observation

Observation: For he is but a bastard to the time, That doth not smack of observation.

Oddity

Oddity: What a Herod of Jewry is this!

Odium

Odium: You are smelt Above the moon.

Offence

Offence: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more.

Office

Office: Having both the key of officer and office. He was a fool; For he would needs be virtuous: That good fellow, If I command him…

Omens

Omens: The bay trees in our country are all wither'd, And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven; The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the…

Omnipotence, Inscrutable

Omnipotence, Inscrutable: He that of greatest works is finisher, Oft does them by the weakest minister: So holy writ in babes hath judgment…

Openness

Openness: I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly.

Ophelia Drowning

Ophelia Drowning: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There, with fantastic garlands…

Opinion

Opinion: I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their owne, I may be straight, though they themselves be bevell, By…

Opposition

Opposition: Back, I say, go; lest I let forth your half pint of blood ;--

Oppression

Oppression: I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd, And duty in his service perishing.

Oration, Pedantic

Oration, Pedantic: Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer flies

Orator

Orator: Doubt not, my lord; I'll play the orator, As if the golden fee, for which I plead, Were for myself.

Order

Order: Degree being vizardea, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe…

Ornament

Ornament: Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The…

Othello's Apology

Othello'S Apology: Rude am I in speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace; For since these arms of mine had seven years'…

Overmatched

Overmatched: If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, I am no two-legged creature.

Olsey

Olsey: And, to add greater honours to his age Than man could give him, he died,

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