Chapter WORM to WORTH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WORM to WORTH

WORM.—The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on;
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act II. Scene 2. (Clifford to the King.)

WORMS.—Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act IV. Scene 1. (Rosalind to Orlando.)

WORSE.—His tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 112. Churchill.—The Duellist, Book III.

WORSE.—From good to bad, and from bad to worse,
From worse unto that is worst of all,
And then return to his former fall.

Spenser.—The Shepherd’s Calendar, Feb. Line 12.

WORST.—Would Heaven this mourning were past!
One may have better luck at last;
Matters at worst are sure to mend,
The devil’s wife was but a fiend.

Prior.—The Turtle and Sparrow, Line 414.

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 2. (Rosse to Lady Macduff.)

His only solace was, that now,
His dog-bolt fortune was so low,
That either it must quickly end,
Or turn about again, and mend.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 39.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse my friend;
For when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Cowper.—Translation from Owen. To a Friend in Distress.

WORTH.—I know my price; I am worth no worse a place.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo.)

This mournful truth is every where confess’d,
Slow rises worth, by poverty depress’d.

Dr. Johnson.—London, Line 176.

And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than ’twas worth.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 491.

For what is worth in any thing,
But so much money as ’twill bring?

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 465.

What’s aught but as ’tis valued?

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act II. Scene 2. (Troilus to Hector,)