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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Weeping: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Give me no help in lamentation, I am not barren to bring forth laments:
continued. All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes, That I, being govern'd by the wat'ry moon, May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!— R. III. ii. 2.
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.— H.VI. PT. 111. ji. 1
And the remainder mourning over them, Brim full of sorrow, and dismay; but chiefly, Him you term'd, Sir, the good old lord Gonzalo; His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds.— T. v. 1.
No, I'll not weep :- I have full cause of weeping; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,— K. L. ii. 4.
Or ere I'll weep. I cannot weep: for all my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart.— H. VI. PT. III. ii. 1.
'Twill be this hour ere I have done weeping.
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