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Joy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee :-Hoo! Marcius is coming home!— C. ii. 1

Why, hark you; The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes, Tabors, and cymbals, and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance.— C. v. 4

But that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.— C. iv. 5.

There appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough, without a badge of bitterness. *** A kind overflow of kindness: There are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy, than to joy at weeping!— M. A. i. 1

Irresolution

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.— M. M. i. 5

That we would do, We should do when we would; for this would changes, And hath abatements and delays as many, As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this should is like a spendthrift's sigh, That hurts by easing.— H. iv. 7.

Irreverence

Quaff'd off the muscadel, and threw the sops all in the sexton's face.— T. S. iii. z

Irritability

Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in— R. J. iii. 1.

Italy. Being incens'd, he's flint; As humorous as winter, and as sudden As flaws congealed in the spring of day. His temper therefore must be well observ'd: Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclin'd to mirth; But, being moody, give him line and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. H. IV. PT. II. iv. 4. A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.— C. ii. 1.