Chapter JEPHTHA to JUDGES of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

JEPHTHA to JUDGES

JEPHTHA.—O Jephtha, judge of Israel,—what a treasure hadst thou!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Hamlet and Polonius.)

JERKIN.—A man’s body and his mind (with the utmost reverence to both I speak it) are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin’s lining;—rumple the one, you rumple the other.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Chap. XLVIII.

JEST.—A jest’s prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 2. (Rosaline to Biron.)

JEW.—Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 1. (Shylock to Salarino.) 1. He left his old religion for an estate, and has not had time to get a new one. 2. But stands like a dead wall between church and synagogue, or like the blank leaves between the Old and New Testament.

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

He was a Jew, and turned Catholic; but in his heart he is still as much a Jew as ever Pilate was: for, they say, he abjured for interest.

Le Sage.—Gil Blas, Book VI. Chap. I.

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. (Gratiano to Shylock.)

There’s no living without these Israelites. I am an absolute bankrupt with every Christian creature.

O’Brien.—Cross Purposes, Act I. Scene 1.

JOB.—As poor as Job.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Scene 5.

As wicked as Job’s wife.

Ibid.—(Page and Ford.)

JOINT.—The time is out of joint.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (To Horatio and Marcellus.)

JOURNEY.—In the mid journey of our life below,
I found myself within a gloomy wood,
No traces left, the path direct to show.

Wright’s Dante.—Inferno, Line 1.

JOY.—Joy ruled the day, and Love the night.

Dryden.—The Secular Masque.

How much better it is to weep at joy, than joy at weeping.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act I. Scene 1. (Leonato to Messenger.)