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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Custom: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.— H. v. 1
Custom calls me to't:- What custom wills in all things should we do't; The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to overpeer. C. ii.) Nice customs curt'sey to great kings.— H.V. V. "
Assume a virtue if you have it not, That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat— H. iii.
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this. Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law My services are bound. Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ?— K. L. i.

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Though I am native here, And to the manner born, -it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. H. i. 4 D
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