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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Delights: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

All delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. L. L1 L. These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume; the sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore, love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.— R. J. ii. 8.
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