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Jewel: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Can the world buy such a jewel? IF. Talk'st thou to me of ifs.— R. III. iii. 4.

All these you may avoid but the lie direct; and you may avoid that too, with an if. I knew when seven justices could not make up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an if'; as, if you said so, then I said so; and they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your if is the only peace-maker; much— A.Γ. v. 4.

virtue in if.

Ignorance

O thou monster, ignorance, how deform'd dost thou look— L. L. iv. 2.

Ignorance is the curse of God.— H. VI. PT. II. iv. 7.

Dull, unfeeling, barren ignorance.— T. C. ii. 3.

Short-arm'd ignorance.

Ill-Favoured

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind,— C. E. iv. 2.

Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Illiterate

Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is only an— L. L. iv. 2.

animal; only sensible in the duller parts.