Chapter PATIENCE to PEACE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat,
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.

Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto III. Line 17.

PAY.—Pay! ’tis against my profession.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Faithful Friends, Act I. Scene 2.

Base is the slave that pays.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act II. Scene 1.

You must pay your music, sir,
Where’er you come.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Widow, Act III. Scene 1.

This is a time when a man is accounted an ass, if he is not paid for every thing he does.

Hoare.—Lock and Key, Act I. Scene 1.

PEACE.—I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 1.

Peace, sit you down,
And let me wring your heart: for so I shall,
If it be made of penetrable stuff.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.

PEACE.—Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

Collins.—Eclogue II. Line 68; Hassan.

Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain:
“Think nothing gain’d,” he cries, “till nought remain.”

Dr. Johnson. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 201.

Against the king, his crown, and peace,
And all the statutes in that case.

Edward Moore.—Trial of Selim.

When peace, though but a scanty pause for breath,
A curtain-drop between the acts of death.

Campbell.—Theodric.

Peace hath her victories
No less renown’d than war.

Milton.—Sonnet XVI. Line 10.