The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (396 page)
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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't.
The Tempest
(1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 183
614
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
Timon of Athens
(
c.
1607) act 1, sc. 2, l. [152]
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.
Timon of Athens
(
c.
1607) act 3, sc. 6, l. [107]
We have seen better days.
Timon of Athens
(
c.
1607) act 4, sc. 2, l. 27
The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
Timon of Athens
(
c.
1607) act 4, sc. 3, l. 437
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion
Upon the beachèd verge of the salt flood.
Timon of Athens
(
c.
1607) act 5, sc. 1, l. [220]
619
She is a woman, therefore may be wooed;
She is a woman, therefore may be won;
Titus Andronicus
(1590) act 2, sc. 1, l. 82
Come, and take choice of all my library,
And so beguile thy sorrow.
Titus Andronicus
(1590) act 4, sc. 1, l. 34
621
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark! what discord follows.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 109
To be wise, and love,
Exceeds man's might.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 3, sc. 2, l. [163]
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145
Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honour bright.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 150
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 175
There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 55
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 4, sc. 5, l. 223
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
Troilus and Cressida
(1602) act 5, sc. 3, l. [109]
629
If music be the food of love, play on.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1
That strain again! it had a dying fall.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 4
I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [92]
I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O! had I but followed the arts!
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [20]
A plague o' these pickle herring!
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [127]
He is very well-favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly: one would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [170]
Make me a willow cabin at your gate.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [293]
Not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. 1
O mistress mine! where are you roaming?
O! stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [50]
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [91]
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [124]
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [184]
I was adored once too.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [200]
Let still the woman take
An elder than herself, so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 29
Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51
Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [74]
She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought;
And with a green and yellow melancholy,
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [112]
I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. [122]
But be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [158].
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 2, sc. 5, l. [168]
In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
Is best to lodge.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 3, l. 39
I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [31]
Why, this is very midsummer madness.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [62]
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [142]
More matter for a May morning.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [158]
Still you keep o' the windy side of the law.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [183]
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [388]
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [390]
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain;
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
Twelfth Night
(1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [401]
661
O! how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(1592–3) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84
Who is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
(1592–3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40
663
A sad tale's best for winter.
I have one of sprites and goblins.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 2, sc. 1, l. 24
I have drunk, and seen the spider.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 2, sc. 1, l. 45
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 3, sc. 2, l. [223]
Exit, pursued by a bear.
stage direction
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 3, sc. 3
When daffodils begin to peer,
With heigh! the doxy, over the dale,
Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1
While we lie tumbling in the hay.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 2, l. 12
My father named me Autolycus; who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 2, l. [24]
Jog on, jog on the foot-path way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 2, l. [133]
For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep
Seeming and savour all the winter long.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. 74
The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun,
And with him rises weeping.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. 105
Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. 121
Pale prime-roses,
That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength,.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. 122
The queen of curds and cream.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. 161
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 4, sc. 3, l. [734]
Stars, stars!
And all eyes else dead coals.
The Winter's Tale
(1610–11) act 5, sc. 1, l. 67
O! she's warm.
If this be magic, let it be an art