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Boils and plagues
Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd
Further than seen, . . .
Topic: Abhorrence
Source: Coriolanus (Marcius at I, iv)
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And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!
Topic: Abhorrence
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, i)
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The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows.
They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred!
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.
Topic: Abhorrence
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Cassandra at V, iii)
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[F]ew things loves better
Than to abhor himself-- . . .
Topic: Abhorrence
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Poet at I, i)
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I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.
Topic: Absence
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Portia at I, ii)
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How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere!
Topic: Absence
Source: Sonnet XCVII
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All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.
Topic: Absence
Source: Sonnet XLIII
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I dote on his very absence.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.
Topic: Accident
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
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Of moving accidents by flood and field.
Topic: Accident
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good
play needs no epilogue.
Topic: Acting
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at epilogue)
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Like a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace.
Topic: Acting
Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at V, iii)
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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Topic: Action
Source: None
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Season your admiration for a while
With an attent ear. . . .
Topic: Admiration
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, ii)
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from human haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Topic: Adversity
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Topic: Adversity
Source: As You Like It (Duke Senior at II, i)
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A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry.
But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain:
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,
With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me;
But if thou live to see like right bereft,
This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
Topic: Adversity
Source: The Comedy of Errors (Adriana at I, ii)
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Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
For wise men say it is the wisest course.
Topic: Adversity
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (King Henry at III, i)
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His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And found the blessedness of being little.
Topic: Adversity
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Griffith at IV, ii)
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Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Topic: Adversity
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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Then know, that I have little wealth to lose.
A man I am, crossed with adversity;
My riches are these poor habiliments,
Of which if you should here disfurnish me,
You take the sum and substance that I have.
Topic: Adversity
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at IV, i)
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When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
Topic: Advice
Source: King Lear (Fool at II, iv)
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Bosom upon my counsel;
You'll find it wholesome.
Topic: Advice
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Norfolk at I, i)
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Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
Topic: Advice
Source: Measure for Measure (Mariana at IV, i)
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Henceforth, I'll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself,
'Enough, enough, and die.'
Topic: Affliction
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at IV, vi)
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears
Do scald me like molten lead.
Topic: Affliction
Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vii)
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Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
Topic: Affliction
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii)
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
Topic: Age
Source: None
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
Topic: Alchemy
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at V, i)
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Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no
kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes.
Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence.
Topic: Apparel
Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Lafew at II, v)
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(Cloten:) Thou villain base,
Know'st me not by my clothes?
(Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal,
Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes,
Which, as it seems, make thee.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Cymbeline (Cloten & Guiderius at IV, ii)
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy,
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
And they in France of the best rank and station
Are of a most select and generous chief in that.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii)
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See where she comes, apparelled like the spring,
Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king
Of every virtue gives renown to men!
Topic: Apparel
Source: Pericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, i)
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So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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And now, my honey love,
Will we return unto thy father's house
And revel it as bravely as the best,
With silken coats and caps and golden rings,
With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things;
With scarfs and fans and double change of brav'ry,
With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knav'ry.
Topic: Apparel
Source: The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at IV, iii)
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He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will
smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her
disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is, that it
cannot but turn him into a notable contempt.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at II, v)
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A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
Disasters in the sun; and the moist star
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands
Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, i)
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There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
To tell us this.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Horatio at I, v)
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I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Glendower at III, i)
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Why, so can I, or so can any man;
But will they come when you do call for them?
Topic: Apparitions
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at III, i)
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What are these,
So withered and so wild in their attire
That took not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth
And yet are on't?
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Macbeth (Banquo at I, iii)
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Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at II, i)
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Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the churchway paths to glide.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at V, i)
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Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite,
That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honor
Evan till a Lethe'd dulness--
Topic: Appetite
Source: Antony and Cleopatra (Pompey at II, i)
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Read o'er this
And after, this, and then to breakfast with
What appetite you have.
Topic: Appetite
Source: The Life of King Henry the Eighth (King Henry at III, ii)
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Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Topic: Appetite
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
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Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?
Topic: Appetite
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Gratiano at II, vi)
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But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his
youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick at II, iii)
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at II, vi)
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