John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1559 |
| There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1560 |
| A dream itself is but a shadow. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1561 |
| Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1562 |
| This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o’erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1563 |
| Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1564 |
| There is something in this more than natural, if philosophy could find it out. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1565 |
| I know a hawk from a handsaw. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1566 |
| O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou! |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1567 |
| One fair daughter and no more, The which he loved passing well. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1568 |
| Come, give us a taste of your quality. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1569 |
| The play, I remember, pleased not the million; ’t was caviare to the general. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1570 |
| They are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time: after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live. |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1571 |
| Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |
| 1572 |
| What ’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? |
| Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. |