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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48 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Toward

Toward: A coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it.

Table Talk

Table Talk: Pray thee, let it serve for table talk; Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it.

Tailor

Tailor: O, monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread, Thou thimble. Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, Thou flea, thou…

Tale

Tale: I shall tell you A pretty tale.

Tale Of Woe

Tale Of Woe: Tell them the lamentable fall of me, And send the hearers weeping to their beds.

Talker

Talker: Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood; Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!…

Tapster

Tapster: Five years! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking of pewter.

Taxation

Taxation: We must not rend our subjects from our laws, And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each ? A trembling contribution! Why, we…

Tears

Tears: Heaven-moving pearls.

Tediousness

Tediousness: This will last out a night in Russia, When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave, And leave you to the hearing of the…

Temperance

Temperance: Ask God for temperance, that's the appliance only Which your disease requires.

Tempers

Tempers: Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath form'd strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, And…

Tempest

Tempest: Methinks, the wind hath spoke aloud at land: A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements: : If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea…

Temptation

Temptation: There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil, That tempts most cunningly.

Terror

Terror: Alas! how is't with you? That you do bend your eye on vacancy, And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? Forth at your eyes…

Thanks

Thanks: When a man thanks me heartily, methinks, I have given him a penny, and he renders me the beggarly thanks.

Theme

Theme: It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month,

Thief, Thievery

Thief, Thievery: He will steal, Sir, an egg out of a cloiste.. What simple thief brags of his own attaint?

Thief

Thief: Break shops; nothing can you steal, But thieves do lose it.

Thorny Point

Thorny Point: O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.

Thought

Thought: In the quick forge and working house of thought.

Threat

Threat: Unmanner'd dog! stand thou when I command Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, Or, by St Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot…

Thrift

Thrift: This was a way to thrive, and he was blest; And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.

Time

Time: I,-that please some, try all; both joy, and terror, Of good and bad; that make, and unfold error.

Timidity

Timidity: O, I could divide myself and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of skimm'd milk with so honourable an action!

Timon's Grave

Timon'S Grave: Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood; Which, once a day with his embossed froth…

Titles

Titles: That is honour's scorn, Which challenges itself as honour's born, And is not like the sire: Honours thrive, When rather from our…

Tongue

Tongue: Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Tool

Tool: It is a creature that I teach to fight, To wind, to stop, to run directly on; His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit. And, in some…

Touch

Touch: I will touch thee but with reverent hands. H. VI. PT. I. v.

Trades

Trades: There's boundless theft in limited professions. P. A. iv.

Tragedian

Tragedian: For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres, Acts of black night, abominable deeds, Complots of mischief, treason…

Traitor

Traitor: A kissing traitor. To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master; And cried all hail! when as he meant-all harm.

Translating

Translating: He hath studied her well, and translated her well; out of honesty into English.

Trap

Trap: Now is the woodcock near the gin.

Travelling

Travelling: All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to the wise man ports and happy havens.

Treachery

Treachery: O monstrous treachery! Can this be so; That in alliance, amity, and oaths, There should be found such false dissembling guile?

Treason

Treason: Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes: For treason is but trusted like the fox; Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd, and lock'd…

Trepidation

Trepidation: She does so blush, and fetches her wind so short, as if she was frayed with a sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest…

Trials

Trials: Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven, And tempt us not to bear above our power!

Tricks

Tricks: My master hath been an honourable gentleman, tricks he hath had in him, as gentlemen have.

Trifling, Ill-Timed

Trifling, Ill-Timed: All solemn things Should answer solemn accidents. The matter? Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, Is jollity for…

Trinkets

Trinkets: Immoment toys, things of such dignity As we greet modern friends withal.

Truant

Truant: Myself have been an idle truant, Omitting the sweet benefit of time, To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection. T.G. ii.

Trumpet

Trumpet: Trumpet, blow loud; Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents. T. C. i. 3. Make all our trumpets speak; give them all…

Trust

Trust: Antony Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but I do not greatly care to be deceiv'd, That have no use for trusting.

Truth

Truth: Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

Tyrant

Tyrant: Our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds

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