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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Daring: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud On the uncertain footing of a spear.— H. IV. PT. I. i. 3
I'll cross it though it blast me.— H. i. 1.
I dare damnation: To this point I stand.— II. iv. 5.
DARKNESS, ITS EFFECT ON THE FACULTY OF HEARING. Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes; Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense.— M. N. iii. 2.

Mental

Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog.— T. N. iv. 2.
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