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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Worms: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us; and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.— H. iv. 3.
A man may fish with a worm that eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.— H iv. 3.
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