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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Disasters: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd; As knots, by the conflúx of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course and growth. T. C. i. 3. Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else, But the protractive trials of great Jove.— T.C. i. 3.
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