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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Overmatched: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, I am no two-legged creature.— H.IV. PT. I. ii. 4.

Outcast

I am one my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incens'd, that I am reckless what— M. iii. 1.
I do to spite the world. So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance To mend it, or be rid on't.— M. iii. 1.
Sick in the world's regard, wretched, and low, A poor unminded outlaw.— H. IV. PT. I. iv. 3.

Outrageousness

Why, this passes, Mister Ford: you are not to go loose any longer, you must be pinioned.— M. W. iv. 2.
Why, this is lunatics.— M. W. iv. 2.

Outwitted

Thou art not vanquish'd, But cozen'd and beguil'd.— K. L. v. 3.
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