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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Crimes: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

All have not offended: For those that were, it is not square, to take, On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands, Are not inherited.— T.A. V. 5
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes ill deeds done!— K.J. iv. 2

Unpunished

For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not their punishment.— M. M. i. 4.
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