John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 503 |
| Speak low if you speak love. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 504 |
| Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 505 |
| Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 506 |
| Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| 507 |
| Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,— One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| 508 |
| Sits the wind in that corner? |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| 509 |
| Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3. |
| 510 |
| Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 1. |
| 511 |
| From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, 1 he is all mirth. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 512 |
| Every one can master a grief but he that has it. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 513 |
| Are you good men and true? |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 514 |
| To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| 515 |
| The most senseless and fit man. |
| Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. |
| Note 1. From the crown of his head to the sole of the foot.—Pliny the Elder: Natural History, book vii. chap. xvii. Beaumont and Fletcher: The Honest Man’s Fortune, act ii. sc. 2. Thomas Middleton: A Mad World, etc. [back] |