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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Ridicule: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the hrain, awe a man from the career of his humour?— M. A. ii. 3.
And in this fashion, All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, Severals and generals of grace exact, Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, Excitements to the field, or speech for truce, Success or loss, what is, or is not, serves— T.C. i. 3.
As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.
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