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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Desert: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Use every man according to his desert, and who shall escape whipping? use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your— H. ii. 2.
bounty. O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it, To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, When it deserves, with characters of brass, A forted residence, 'gainst the tooth of time, And razure of oblivion.— M. M. v. 1.
But let desert in pure election shine.— Tit. And. i. 1.

Desertion

Him did you leave, Second to none, unseconded by you.— H. IV. PT. II. ii. 2.
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