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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Pastime: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

This will be pastime passing excellent— T. S. IND. 1
If it be husbanded with modesty. Say, what abridgment have you for this evening? What mask? what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time, if not with some delight?— M. N. v. 1.
Courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy, As bombast, and as lining to the time.— L. L. v. 2.

Pa Fching

Any thing that's mended, is but patched: virtue, that transgresses, is but patched with sin; and sin, that amends is but patched with virtue.— T. N. i. 5
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