Chapter DIVINITY to DOOM of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DIVINITY to DOOM

DIVINITY.—There is divinity in odd numbers,
Either in nativity, chance, or death.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Scene 1. (Falstaff to Mrs. Quickly.)

There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2. (Hamlet to Horatio.)

DOCTOR.—Will kick’d out the Doctor: but when ill indeed,
E’en dismissing the Doctor don’t always succeed.

George Colman, Jun.—Lodgings for Single Gentlemen, Verse 7.

DOG.—Every dog must have his day.

Swift.—Whig and Tory.

Dogs, ye have had your day.

Pope.—The Odyssey, Book XXII. Line 41.

Let Hercules himself do what he may,
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (The Prince to his Uncle.)

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)

Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog?

Burton.—Anat. of Mel., Part II. Sect. III. Mem 7.

I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew,
Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 1. (Hotspur to Glendower.)

I am his Highness’s dog at Kew!
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Pope.—On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince.

The watch-dog’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 121.

Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer.

Homer.—The Iliad, Book I. Line 298. (Pope.)

DOG.—Having the countenance of a dog, but heart of a stag.

Homer.—The Iliad, Book I. (Riley’s translation,) Page 9.

DOLLAR.—“The almighty dollar.”

[This phrase is used for the first time by Washington Irving, in the “Creole Village;” but Mr. Irving assures us that no irreverence was intended by him. Dickens makes use of the expression, without acknowledgment, in his American Notes, Chap. III. (Boston.) “The almighty wand” is a phrase used long ago by Cowley in