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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Satiety: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

They surfeited with honey, and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little More than a little is by much too much. H. IV. PT. I. iii. 2. Who rises from a feast With that keen appetite that he eits down? Where is the horse that doth untread again His tedious measures with th' unabated fire That he did pace them first? All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.— M. V. ii. 6
O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly, To seal love's bonds new made, than they are wont,— M. V. ii. 6.
To keep obliged faith unforfeited. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.— 0. i. 3.
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