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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Ability, Innate: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends: For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace Chalks súccessors their way; nor call'd upon For high feats done to the crown; neither allied To eminent assistants; but spider-like, Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note; The force of his own merit makes his way; A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys— H. VIII. i. I
A place next to the king.
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