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Thought: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

In the quick forge and working house of thought.— H. V. v. chorus

Jumping o'er times; Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass.— H. V. i. chorus

Sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts.— R. II. i. 3

A generation of still-breeding thoughts, And these same thoughts people this little world; In humours, like the people of this world, For no thought is contented.— R. II. v. 5.

Thoughtfulness

Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock, a stride and a stand; ruminates, like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say, there were wit in his head, an 'twould out; and so there is; but it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without knocking.— T.C. iii. 3.

My lord, we have Stood here observing him; some strange commotion Is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, Then lays his finger on his temple; straight, Springs out into fast gait, then, stops again, Strikes his breast hard; and anon, he casts His eye against the moon; in most strange postures We have seen him set himself.— H. VIII. iii. 2

There is a mutiny in his mind.— H. VIII. iii. 2