Great Throughts Treasury

"A free and open nature, that thinketh men honest that but seem to be so. Othello, Act i, Scene 3"

"A good heart is worth gold. Henry IV, Act ii, Scene 4"

"A friend i' the court is better than a penny in purse. Henry IV, Act v, Scene 1"

"A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, but Brutus makes mine greater than they are. Julius Caesar (Cassius at IV, iii)"

"A glooming peace this morning with it brings; the sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Romeo and Juliet, Act v, Scene 3"

"A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. King Lear, Act ii, Scene 2"

"A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a fair face will wither, a full eye will wax hollow, but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon—or rather the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly. Henry V, Act v, Scene 2"

"A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. King Henry V, Act v, Scene 2"

"A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act iv, Scene 1"

"A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. Romeo and Juliet Act ii, Scene 5"

"A good jest forever. Henry IV, Act ii, Scene 2"

"A good mouth-filling oath. King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1."

"A good old man, sir; he will be talking. As they say, "When the age is in, the wit is out." God help us! it is a world to see! . Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 5."

"A good old commander and a most kind gentleman. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 1"

"A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! The Merchant of Venice, Act i, Scene 3"

"A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain... Makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes. Henry IV, Act iv, Scene 3"

"A good wit will make use of anything. I will turn diseases to commodity. Henry IV, Act i, Scene 2"

"A good soft pillow for that good white head were better than a churlish turf of France. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 1"

"A goodly portly man, i'faith, and a corpulent, of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage."

"A great cause of the night is lack of the sun. As You Like It, Act iii, Scene 2"

"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! Macbeth, Act v, Scene 1"

"A grandam's name is little less in love Than is the doting title of a mother; They are as children but one step below, Even of your metal, of your every blood, Of all one pain, save for a night of groans Endured of her for whom you bid like sorrow; Your children were vexation to your youth, But mine shall be a comfort to your age. Henry IV, Part II, Act i, Scene 2"

"A habitation giddy and unsure hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. Henry IV, Part II, Act i, Scene 3"

"A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere."

"A great while ago the world begun, with hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day. Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Duke at V, i)"

"A heart unspotted is not easily daunted. King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at III, i)"

"A grievous burden was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy schooldays frightful, desp'rate, wile and furious; Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous; Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, More mild, but yet more harmful--kind in hatred. Richard III, Act iv, Scene 4"

"A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."

"A harmless necessary cat. The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1."

"A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. All’s Well That Ends Well, Act iv, Scene 2"

"A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. Comedy of Errors, Act i, Scene 1"

"A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue; excuse me so, coming too short of thanks for my great suit so easily obtained. Love’s Labour’s Lost"

"A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue. Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act v, Scene 2"

"A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep. Macbeth, Act ii, Scene 1"

"A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege, and all unlooked-for from Your Highness' mouth. A dearer merit, not so deep a maim as to be cast forth in the common air, have I deserved at Your Highness' hands. The language I have learned these forty years, my native English, now I must forgo; and now my tongue's use is to me nor more than an unstringed viol or a harp. Or like a cunning instrument cased up, or, being open, put into his hands that knows no touch to tune the harmony. Within my mouth you have enjailed my tongue, doubly portcullised with my teeth and lips, and dull unfeeling barren ignorance is made my jailer to attend on me. The Life and Death of Richard the Second, Act I, Scene 3"

"A high hope for a low heaven. God grant us patience! Love's Labour 's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1."

"A hovering temporizer, that canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil, inclining to them both. A Winter’s Tale, Act i, Scene 2"

"A hungry lean-fac'd villain, a mere anatomy. Antipholus of Ephesus, scene i"

"'A is far gone, far gone. And truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love, very near this. Hamlet, Act ii, Scene 2"

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4."

"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep and I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome. Coriolanus, Act ii, Scene 1"

"A kind heart he hath. A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii, Scene 4"

"A kind of excellent dumb discourse. The Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3."

"A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kick-shaws, tell William cook."

"A killing tongue and a quiet sword. Henry V, Act iii, Scene 2"

"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. King Lear, Act ii, Scene 2"

"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. Hamlet, Act iv, Scene 2"

"A lady's verily is as potent as a lord's. The Winter’s Tale"

"A league from Epidamnum had we sailed before the always wind-obeying deep Gave any tragic instance of our harm. Comedy of Errors, Act i, Scene 1"

"A largess universal, like the sun, his liberal eye doth give to everyone, thawing cold fear. Henry V, Act iv, Prologue"