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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35 subjects in this part of Shakespearian Quotations.

Wager

2 quotations

Waggery

1 quotation

Wanderer

1 quotation

Want

3 quotations

War

43 quotations

Waste

1 quotation

Watchman

2 quotations

Weakness

2 quotations

Wealth

2 quotations

Weeping

7 quotations

Welcome

4 quotations

Well Doing

2 quotations

Well Doing, the Duty Or

1 quotation

Welsh

2 quotations

Whisperers

1 quotation

White

3 quotations

Wife

18 quotations

Wilfulness

1 quotation

Will

5 quotations

Wind

1 quotation

Wine

3 quotations

Winning

3 quotations

Wisdom

2 quotations

Wit

28 quotations

Wit, Reflections on the Scull of A

8 quotations

Woe

4 quotations

Woman

16 quotations

Wonder

7 quotations

Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting

1 quotation

Words

11 quotations

World

16 quotations

Worms

2 quotations

Worst

3 quotations

Wound

3 quotations

Wrongs

4 quotations

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