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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Horror: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their sphere; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.— H. i. 5
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