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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Scorn: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

You speak of the people, as if you were a god, To punish; not a man of their infirmity.— C. iii. L.
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave.— A. W. ii. 3
O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!— H. VI. PT. II. iv. 1.
Scorn at first, makes after love the more. I will not do't: Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth, And, by my body's action, teach my mind— C. iii. 2.
A most inherent baseness.
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