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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Sin: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Few love to hear the sins they love to act. O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, The damned'st body to invest and cover— M. M. iii. 1.
In princely guards.

Sincerity

Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me,— W. T. i. 1.
and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.

Sinful

Smacking of every sin that has a name.

Singing

She will sing the savageness out of a bear.

Bad

An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him; and I pray God his bad— M. A. ii. 3.
voice bode no mischief. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once.— M. A. ii. 3.

Singularity

Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously.— M. W. ii. 2.

Sinners, Refined

Some of all professions, that go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.— M. ii. 3
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