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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Evasion: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

What trick, what device, what starting hole, canst thou now find out, to hide thee from this open and apparent shame.— H. IV. PT. I. ii. 4
For, well you know, we of th' offending side Must keep aloof from strict arbitrament: And stop all sight-holes; every loop, from whence The eye of reason may pry in upon us. H. IV. PT. I. iv.— H. IV. PT. I. iv. 1

Worn-Out

I ne'er had worse luck in my life, in my,-O Lord, Sir: I see, things may serve long, but not serve ever.— A. W. ii. 2.
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