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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Eloquence: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Some there are Who on the tip of their persuasive tongue Carry all arguments and questions deep ۶ And replication prompt, and reason strong To make the weeper smile, the laugher weep. They have the dialect and different skill, Catching all passions in their craft of will. That in the general bosom they do reign Poems. Of young and old, and either sex enchain. When rank Thersites opes his mastiff jaws— T.C. i. &
We shall hear music, wit and oracle.
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