Select Search World Factbook Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Bartlett's Quotations Respectfully Quoted Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Brewer's Phrase & Fable Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Quotations > John Bartlett, comp. > Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. > Page 149   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.   Page 149     William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued)   1754     The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.           King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3. 1755     Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low,—an excellent thing in woman.           King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3. 1756     Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.           King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3. 1757     That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1758     The bookish theoric.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1759     ’T is the curse of service, Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1760     We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly follow’d.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1761     Whip me such honest knaves.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1762     I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1763     You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 1764     The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.           Othello. Act i. Sc. 2. 1765     Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv’d good masters, That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her: The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, 1 And little bless’d with the soft phrase of peace: For since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith, Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used   Note 1. Though I be rude in speech.—2 Cor. xi. 6. [back]   CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD · AUTHOR INDEX · CONCORDANCE INDEX   PREVIOUS NEXT     Shakespeare · Bible · Strunk · Anatomy · Nonfiction · Quotations · Reference · Fiction · Poetry © 1993–2015 Bartleby.com · [Top 150] · Subjects · Titles · Authors · World Lit.