John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 994 |
| Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was he. But we rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| 995 |
| I ’ll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. |
| King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 4. |
| 996 |
| Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam’s curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 997 |
| Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember’d tolling a departing friend. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1. |
| 998 |
| I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 999 |
| A rascally yea-forsooth knave. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1000 |
| Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1001 |
| We that are in the vaward of our youth. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1002 |
| For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1003 |
| It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1004 |
| I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1005 |
| If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1006 |
| Who lined himself with hope, Eating the air on promise of supply. |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1007 |
| When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection. 1 |
| King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether we have sufficient to finish it?—Luke xiv. 28. [back] |