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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Infirmity: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Infirmity doth still neglect all office, Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves, When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind To suffer with the body.— K. L. ii. 4

Greatnes Not Exempt From

He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake: His coward lips did from their colours fly; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose its lustre.— J. C. i. 2
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