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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Distraction: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease: tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of: Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-an-fro-conflicting wind and rain.— K.L. iii 1.
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