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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Phantasy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

This is the very coinage of your brain: This bodiless creation ecstacy Is very cunning in.— H. iii. 4.
PHILOSOPHY. PHILOSOPHERS. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.— R. J. iii. 3
Brave conquerors, -for so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires.— L. L. i. 1.
Of your philosophy you make no use, If you give place to accidental evils.— J. C. iv. 3.
Blest are those, Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger, To sound what stop she please.— H. iii. 2.
Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom; It helps not, it prevails not, talk no more.— R. J. iii. 3.
For there was never yet philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ach patiently; However they have writ the style of gods, And made a pish at chance and sufferance— M. A. v. 1
O, cry you mercy, Noble philosopher, your company.— K. L. iii. 4.
First, let me talk with this philosopher:- What is the cause of thunder?— K. L. iii. 4.
-, PRETENDED. We make trifles of terrors; ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.— A. W. ii. 3
We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar things, supernatural and causeless.— A. W. ii. 3.
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