John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 The Winters Tale John Bartlett 1919 Familiar Quotations
| 1 |
| They say we are Almost as like as eggs. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 2 |
| What ’s gone and what ’s past help Should be past grief. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2. |
| 3 |
| A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 1 |
| 4 |
| A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. |
| 5 |
| O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let’st fall From Dis’s waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes Or Cytherea’s breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. 2 |
| 6 |
| When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ the sea, 3 that you might ever do Nothing but that. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
| 7 |
| I love a ballad in print o’ life, for then we are sure they are true. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
| 8 |
| To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. |
| The Winter’s Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4. |
| Note 1. Act iv. sc. 2 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White. [back] |
| Note 2. Act iv. Sc. 3 in Dyce, Knight, Singer, Staunton, and White. [back] |
| Note 3. Like a wave of the sea.—James i. 6. [back] |