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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Precise Man: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Lord Angelo is precise; Stand at a guard with envy; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone: Hence shall we see If power change purpose, what our seemers be. M. M. i. 4. A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense; But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge With profits of the mind, study and fast.— M. M. i. 5
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