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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Sport: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Sport royal, I warrant you. Nay, I'll come; if I lose a scruple of this sport, let me— T.N. ii. 5.
be boiled to death with melancholý. Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony of good conscience.— L. L. iv. 2.
That sport best pleases, that doth least know how Where zeal strives to content, and the contents Die in the zeal of them which it presents, Their form confounded makes most form in mirth; When great things labouring perish in their birth.— L. L. v. 2
It is admirable pleasures and fery honest knaveries.— M. W. iv. 4.
There's no such sport, as sport by sport o'erthrown To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own: So shall we stay, mocking intended game, And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.— L. L. v. 2
I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play on the tabor to the worthies, and let them dance the hay.— L. L. v. 1.

Ladies

Thus men may grow wiser every day! it is the first time that ever I heard, breaking of ribs was sport for ladies.— A.Y. i. 2.
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