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Vows: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Riotous madness, To be entangled with those mouth-made vows Which break themselves in swearing.— A. C. i. 3.

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows They are polluted offerings, more abhor'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.— T.C. V. 3.

Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villany; not born, wher't grows; But worn, a bait for ladies:— Cym. iii. 4.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.— TC. v. 3.

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken.— T. G. ii. 6

Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers' oaths.— H. iii. 4

Upstart

A man, they say, that from very nothing, beyond the imagination of his neighbours, is grown into an unspeaka-— W. T. iv. 1.

Urgency

The affair cries, haste, And speed must answer it.— O. i. 8.

The time will not allow the compliment, Which very manners urges.— K. L. v. 3.

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!— R. III. v. 4

Her. business looks in her— A. W. v. 3.

With an importing visage.

Usury

That use is not forbidden usury, Poems. Which happies those that pay the willing loan. Banish usury, that makes the senate ugly.— T. A. iii. 5.

Usurers

Poor rogues, and usurers' men! bawds between gold and— T. A. ii. 2.

Usurper

A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand, Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd: And he that stands upon a slippery place, Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.— K. J. iii. 4.

In the name of God, How comes it then, that thou art call'd a king, When living blood doth in these temples beat, Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest? K. J. ii. 1. Those he commands, move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel the title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe— M. V. 2

Upon a dwarfish thief. A vice of kings; A cut-purse of the empire and the rule; That from a shelf the precious diadem stole— H. iii. 4.

And put it in his pocket. No hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,— R. II. iii. 3.

Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.

Utility And Dignity

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give— T.C. ii.

Before a sleeping giant. Shakespearian Dictionary. WAB m.