Necessity. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Necessity


Necessity—thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XXVI.	1
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish’d sofa last. Cowper.—The Task, Book I. Line 86.	2
1. She must lie here on mere necessity. 2. Necessity will make us all forsworn. Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 1.	3
Necessity’s sharp pinch. Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4.	4
I’d rather dwell in my necessity. Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3.	5
Orpheus, who found no remedy, Made virtue of necessity. King.—Orpheus and Eurydice, Line 193.	6
To maken virtue of necessity. Chaucer.—The Knight’s Tale, Line 3044.	7
Are you content to be our general? To make a virtue of necessity, And live, as we do, in this wilderness? Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. Scene 1.	8