Chapter WEEP to WHAT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Prophetess, Act V. Scene 2.

This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve;
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve:
He can carve too, and lisp.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 2. (Biron speaking of Boyet to the King.)

WEPT.—I wept him dead that living honoured me.

Greene.—A Maiden’s Dream, Verse 5 from the end.

“WESTMINSTER ABBEY, OR VICTORY!”

Nelson’s exclamation on boarding the San Nicholas. See his Life.

Sound trumpets!—let our bloody colours wave!—
And either victory, or else a grave.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act II. Scene 2. (Edward to George of Clarence.)

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act III. Scene 1. (The King before Harfleur.)

WEST.—Olivia. There lies your way, due west.
Viola. Then westward-hoe.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene I.

WHAT.—He knew what’s what, and that’s as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 149.

WHAT.—Let ev’ry man enjoy his whim;
What’s he to me, or I to him?

Churchill.—The Ghost, Book IV.

What will Mrs. Grundy say?

Morton.—Speed the Plough, Act I. Scene 1.

What’s done cannot be undone.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 1. (Lady Macbeth walking and talking in her sleep.)

Things without all remedy
Should be without regard; what’s done is done.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2. (Lady Macbeth to her husband.)

What’s done cannot be now amended.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 4. (To Queen Elizabeth.)

What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (After his interview with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

What’s there in a name?
Propensity to vice in both the same.

Churchill.—The Farewell.