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Lamentations: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Why should calamity be full of words?— R. III. iv. 4

Windy attorneys to their client woes, Airy succeeders to intestate joys, Poor breathing orators of miseries! Let them have scope: though what they do impart, Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. R.III. iv. 1. Alas, poor Yorick !— H. v. 1.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.— H. VI. PT. III. v. 4.

Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes, And I will fill them with prophetic tears. Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled elders, Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry, Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes A moiety of that mass of moan to come.— T.C. ii. 2.