Chapter MAID to MAN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MAID to MAN

MAID.—The chariest maid is prodigal enough,
If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
Virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Laertes to Ophelia.)

A maid unask’d may own a well-plac’d flame;
Not loving first, but loving wrong, is shame.

Lyttleton.—Advice to a Lady, Line 69.

MAIDEN.—Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here’s to a widow of fifty;
Here’s to the flaunting extravagant quean,
And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty.

Chorus. Let the toast pass—

Drink to the lass,
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass.

Sheridan.—School for Scandal, Act III. Scene 3.

MAIDENS.—Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 9.

MALEFACTORS.—My name is Elbow; I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors. 2. Are they not malefactors? 1. I know not well what they are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure of; and void of all profanation in the world, that good Christians ought to have.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 1. (Elbow to Angelo.)

MALICE.—For malice will with joy the lie receive,
Report, and what it wishes true, believe.

Yalden.—Ovid’s Art of Love, Book II.

MAN.—Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job.—Chap. XIV. Verses 1, 2.

Man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labour, until the evening.

Psalm CIV. Verse 23.

All go into one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Ecclesiastes.—Chap. III. Verse 20.

MAN.—Man goeth to his long home.

Ecclesiastes.—Chap. 12. Verse 5.

Man that flowers so fresh at morn, and fades at evening late.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto IX.

Such is the state of men!