The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (395 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,
My figured goblets for a dish of wood,
My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff.
Richard II
(1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 147
Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks.
Richard II
(1595) act 3, sc. 4, l. 29
Here, in this place,
I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace.
Richard II
(1595) act 3, sc. 4, l. 104
God save the king! Will no man say, amen?
Richard II
(1595) act 4, sc. 1, l. 172
With mine own tears I wash away my balm,
With mine own hands I give away my crown.
Richard II
(1595) act 4, sc. 1, l. 207
That were some love but little policy.
Richard II
(1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 84
Who are the violets now
That strew the green lap of the new come spring?
Richard II
(1595) act 5, sc. 2, l. 46
How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke, and no proportion kept!
So is it in the music of men's lives.
Richard II
(1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 42
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Richard II
(1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49
554
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
Richard III
(1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
This weak piping time of peace.
Richard III
(1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 24
Was ever woman in this humour wooed?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
Richard III
(1591) act 1, sc. 2, l. 229
Clarence is come,—false, fleeting, perjured Clarence.
Richard III
(1591) act 1, sc. 4, l. 55
Woe to the land that's governed by a child!
Richard III
(1591) act 2, sc. 3, l. 11.
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Richard III
(1591) act 3, sc. 1, l. 79
Talk'st thou to me of "ifs"? Thou art a traitor:
Off with his head!
Richard III
(1591) act 3, sc. 4, l. 74.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
Richard III
(1591) act 4, sc. 2, l. 115
Harp not on that string.
Richard III
(1591) act 4, sc. 4, l. 365
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.
Richard III
(1591) act 5, sc. 2, l. 23
The king's name is a tower of strength.
Richard III
(1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 12
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Richard III
(1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7
566
A pair of star-crossed lovers.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) prologue
Younger than she are happy mothers made.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 1, sc. 2, l. 12
O! then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you…
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53
You and I are past our dancing days.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [142]
He jests at scars, that never felt a wound.
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 33
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 43
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 118
O! for a falconer's voice,
To lure this tassel-gentle back again.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158
Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 184
I am the very pink of courtesy.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 2, sc. 4, l. [63]
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [100]
A plague o' both your houses!
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [112]
O! I am Fortune's fool.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [142]
Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1
Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 21
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 54
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 2
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 9
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153
Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 4, sc. 5, l. 28
Tempt not a desperate man.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 59
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death.
Romeo and Juliet
(1595) act 5, sc. 3, l. 88
591
Kiss me Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
The Taming of the Shrew
(1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 318
This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.
The Taming of the Shrew
(1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.
The Taming of the Shrew
(1592) act 5, sc. 2, l. 143
594
He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 1, l. [33]
What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 49
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 109
The still-vexed Bermoothes.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 229
You taught me language; and my profit on't
Is, I know how to curse.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 375
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
The Tempest
(1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 394
What's past is prologue.
The Tempest
(1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
The Tempest
(1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The Tempest
(1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]
'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,
Has a new master—Get a new man.
The Tempest
(1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [197]
Thou deboshed fish thou.
The Tempest
(1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [30]
He that dies pays all debts.
The Tempest
(1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [143]
Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
The Tempest
(1611) act 3, sc. 2, l. [147]
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest
(1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. 148
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
The Tempest
(1611) act 4, sc. 1, l. [221]
But this rough magic
I here abjure.
The Tempest
(1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 50
I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
The Tempest
(1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 54
Where the bee sucks, there suck I
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily:
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
The Tempest
(1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 88