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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Ant: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's— K. L. ii. 4.
no labouring in the winter.

Anticipation

By the pricking of my thumbs,— M. iv. 1.
Something wicked this way comes.— PT. I. i. 3.
I smell it; upon my life, it will do well. H. IV. PT. I. i.— T. N. ii. 3
Excellent! I smell a device. A man may hear this shower sing in the wind.— M. W. iii. 2.
Great business must be wrought ere noon; Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vapourous drop profound;— M. iii. 5
I'll catch it ere it come to ground. I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet,— T. C. iii. 2.
That it enchants my sense.

Antiquities

What's to do?— T. N. iii. 3.
Shall we go see the reliques of this town?
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