Magill's Quotations in Context

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World mad kings mad composition Mad 654
1
Legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind Books are the 107
3
Fruit first falls The Ripest 923
6
Fight another day He who turns and runs away lives to 417
9
Child what should it know of death? A Simple 971
12
Good The Supreme 1021
15
Flaming bounds of place and time He passed the 405
16
Cow Everyone as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her 261
21
Lady Disdain My dear
728
Enemy My nearest and dearest
733
Good Theyre only truly great who are truly 1078
736
Nature say one thing and wisdom say another Never did
744
Vacant mind With a body filled and 1286
752
Pleasure laid Remorse the fatal egg by 912
760
Husband than the best of men No worse a
762
Savage The Noble
765

Hatred turned Heaven has no rage like love to 423
22
Strange twas passing strange Twas 1156
29
Paid that is well satisfied Well 1216
57
Mind in a sound body A Sound 998
60
Sundry places The Scripture moveth us in 944
64
Minds The Marriage of true 686
67
Choirs where late the sweet birds sang Bare ruined
73
Exalts him but what man would do Tis not what man does which 1117
81
Prophet Never dares the man put off the 743
85
Jennys case Vengeance of 1179
90
Crack your cheeks Blow winds and
93
Heaven Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive but to be young was very
100
Tails you lose Heads I win 419
107
Choose The World was all before them where to 1304
108
Liberty License they mean when they cry 609
114
Right The Minority is always in the 709
125
Creeds outworn The Dust of 235
129
Kalends They will pay on the Greek 1076
133
Tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive Oh what a 808
141
Clarence False fleeting perjured 274
145
Weather Politics go by the 877
147
Prow and Pleasure at the helm Youth on the 1327
149
Colors Coat of many
154
Life became him like the leaving it Nothing in his 777
164
Horne Triton blowing loud his wreathed 1149
166
Tears Crocodiles
178
Life Custom is the great guide of human
182
Eyes The Cynosure of neighboring
183
Unextinguishable laugh in heaven That 1045
189
Mad she always goes into white satin When a heroine goes 1242
196
Selflove The Deceiving mirror of
201
Name A Deed without a
202
Deceit Yet still we hug the dear 1310
207
Painted Devils are not so black as they be
210
Minions of the moon Dianas foresters gentlemen of the shade
211
Face is a letter of recommendation A Good 359
221
Flesh and blood so cheap Oh God that bread should be so dear and 804
230
Fair whatever you do Drink
233
Buckingham Off with his head So much for 803
234
Crown The Hollow 448
235
Whisky gang thegither Freedom and 312
236
Heaven by sea as by land We are as near to 1197
238
Dreams to shame Gods gifts put mans best 353
247
Mob Our supreme governors the 839
252
Hell nor am I out of it This is 1084
255
Money heigh ho How pleasant it is to have 460
260
Selling something Everyone lives by
263
Roman style If you are in Rome live in the 513
264
Hour you come most carefully upon your 1314
272
Fairies Farewell rewards and
280
Funeral afore I die Ive a great fancy to see my own 557
281
Cruel only to be kind I must be 491
285
Pussgentleman thats all perfume A Fine
291
Name The Glory and the nothing of a 339
295
Wrong Forever most divinely in the
308
Flutters least is longest on the wing The Bird that 96
309
Deceiver A Gay
326
Dullness ever loves a joke Gentle
331
Deeds is known The Gentle mind by gentle
332
Gab The Gift of
333
Come to you Whistle and shell 1263
336
Galilean Lake The Pilot of the 864
349
Senates hang upon thy tongue While listening 1260
360
Bugle horn were worth a thousand men One blast upon his 819
363
Crumbs Pickerup of learnings 860
366
Reason in nothing so much as their religion Men have lost their 699
377
Fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer The Greatest
380
Servant does not all commands Every good 255
385
Garden of girls The Rosebud 926
392
Maimed and the halt and the blind The Poor and the 878
397
Rome falls the World When 1249
398
Served Youth will be 1328
406
Unhonored dead Mindful of the 707
429
Tears for misfortune There are 1052
430
Monument Patience on a 851
434
Register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind History is little more than
445
Humour A Holiday
447
Eagle among blinking owls A Hooded
453
accept the
463
Caesar and his fortune You carry 1313
470
Ruin of all happiness Traveling is the 1147
476
Generation will come knocking at my door The Younger 1322
483
King A Leper once he lost and gained a 593
489
Eagle blind A Lovers eyes will gaze an 649
501
Saddens while it soothes Thought which 1100
504
Earth The Cool flowery lap of 172
517
Sands of time Footprints on the 302
521
Tears Smiling through 980
530
Eat to live not live to eat One must 823
539
Wind in that corner? Sits the 974
541
Nature for it is not sense It cant be
542
Genius without some touch of madness There is no great 1056
543
Fool than to be dead It is better to be a
544
Toolmaking animal Man is a 669
557
Knowledge The Bonded warehouse of my 104
559
Morning shows the day The Childhood shows the man as 142
563
Wrong The King can do no
564
Deep to the great deep From the great 319
567
Mountain scarce brings forth a mouse The Laboring
574
Piety more prone The Weaker sex to 1213
584
Palms are won Another race hath been and other 43
587
Conquer Antony Antony should 44
600
Democracy Tyranny arises out of 1159
605
Caesar might be great What millions died that 1232
615
Hung upon his lips Persuasion 857
617
Ladies A Lion among
621
Candle throws his beams How far that little 458
629
Unkindness Drink down all 233
634
Winds and crack your cheeks Blow 103
638
Mouth Down in the 229
641
Trade of kings War is the 1193
653
Ecstasy of love The Very 1181
661
Shadow of a mighty name He stands the 409
664
Nature hath but more Man hath all which
665
Cannons mouth Seeking the bubble reputation even in the 947
667
Paradox Man is an embodied
670
Regulated liberty A Manly moral
678
Case A Lady in the 575
680
Contract Marriage is nothing but a civil
685
Contrary The Memory of man runneth not to the
696
Vacant is a mind distressed A Mind quite
706
Pity of it O Iago the 789
710
Cat A Harmless necessary 394
715
Malice mingled with a little wit Much
720
Wrong The Multitude is always in the
722
Curtsey A Mutilated
726
Nature true Not without art but yet to
774
Pardon all good men Now may the good God
782
Ghost which blamed the living man Applaud the hollow 47
788
Iago the pity of it 0
789
Fairy Lilian Airy 14
794
Faith Punic 896
811
High horse On a
816
Religion is as true as another One
827
Wise The Only wretched are the
832
569
837
Parlor? said the Spider to the Fly Will you walk into my 1282
838
Fools The Paradise of
846
Tragedy is the noblest production of human nature A Perfect
857
Pleasure Variety is the soul of 1176
861
Pauper whom nobody owns Hes only a 434
863
Wise the best fools be Who are a little 1268
865
High to fall but stoop to rise Soar not too 986
874
Tragedy to those that feel This world is a comedy to those that think A 1091
889
Near and yet so far So 984
891
Man alive Theres place and means for every 1066
892
Murder will out Vanity like 1175
893
Shore sailor pull for the shore Pull for the
896
Lady fair Faint heart neer wan a 269
905
Short and far between Visits like those of angels 1187
915
Cause for the Church for the Laws For God for the 303
922
Hive for bees His helmet now shall make a 440
925
Foot Hercules is not only known by his 431
928
Nemean lions nerve As hardy as the 59
932
Graces Sacrifice to the
933
Law The Safety of the people shall be their highest
935
Teeth sans eyes sans taste sans everything Sans
939
Despised grow great Dangers by being 188
957
Tribute of a smile The Vain 1174
959
Law thou mine God is thy 348
960
Politics and politics present history History is past 446
961
Grapeshot A Whiff of 1259
982
Mute inglorious Milton Some
993
Pens that ever poets held If all the 509
994
Silence Speech is the small change of
1002
Womans nursing there was dearth of womans tears There was lack of 1061
1003
Daggers in mens smiles Theres 1062
1006
People has something divine The Voice of the 1189
1010
Religion is the rottenest thing about him A Knaves 570
1020
awoke one morning and found myself 471
1025
England the nearer is to France The Further off from 321
1036
Science The Dismal 217
1037
Foresters gentlemen of the shade minions of the moon Dianas 213
1039
Grave That dark inn the
1042
Life is almost as rare as a wellspent one A Wellwritten 1219
1049
Trucklebed Pigging together in the same 862
1055
Life There is no wealth but
1057
Destiny Manifest 677
1060
Grave Theres no repentance in the
1065
Truth Art remains the one way possible of speaking 54
1070
Seascented beach Warm 1195
1076
Posterity Think of your forefathers and of your
1079
Fathers business I must be about my 490
1082
Poverty depressed Slow rises worth by 979
1093
Holidays Envy keeps no 246
1097
Courage Threeoclockinthemorning
1102
Epithets of war Horribly stuffed with 455
1104
Devourer of all things Time thou
1109
Glory shows the way Tis beauty calls and
1112
Deacon swear Enough to make a 245
1113
Pretexts Tyrants seldom want 1161
1117
Ills from beauty spring What 1230
1119
Gray hairs The Oldest man he seemed that ever wore 815
1125
Honesty is the beginning of education To make your children capable of
1128
Secret of life Digestion is the great 214
1131
Princes have great playthings Great 376
1138
Increment Unearned 1164
1144
Life The Tree of
1148
Simple Truth is rarely pure and never
1153
Opinion The Coquetry of public 173
1162
Great things with small To compare 1121
1167
Fault and honesty is his Every man has his 256
1173
Habit of living indisposeth us for dying The Long 631
1177
Courtesy The Greater the man the greater 377
1182
Religious animal Man is a 669
1211
Vain Weep the more because I weep in
1214
Light Let there be 599
1217
Tub Tale of a 1034
1220
Man has made of man What
1222
Repentance in the grave Theres no 1065
1233
Perennial spring Falsehood has a 275
1234
God be pitiful who never said God be praised Lips say 622
1239
Hamlet sleep The Rude forefathers of the 928
1240
Spartan dead A Remnant of our 911
1241
Honesty out of fashion Laugh all 581
1243
Free country Parties must ever exist in a 849
1244
Myself When I give I give
1245
Lips away Take O take those 1032
1251
Led When we think we lead we are most
1252
Mystery begins religion ends Where
1257
Goest thou? Whither
1266
Wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure Who
1272
Infinite spaces terrifies me The Eternal silence of these 250
1275
Dice were human bones Whose
1276
Valor as of kindness As full of 58
1292
Man Wonders are many and none is more wonderful than
1299
Inn No room in the 759
1301
Innocence but sin Ignorance is not 514
1307
Freeman whom the truth makes free He is the 404
1308
Tell You must not kiss and
1316
Dido In such a night stood 527
1317
Mandragora Not poppy nor 770
1322
Sin and some by virtue fall Some rise by 996
1323
Word is God in man Mans 682
1331
Dies The King never 566
1332
Honor from the palefaced moon Pluck bright 873
1333
Friendship ever ends in love A Womans 1295
1334
Character Education has for a chief object the formation of 241
1337
Death There is no drinking after 1054
1338
Divine than the physician More needs she the 713
1339
Happiest Homekeeping hearts are 449
1340
Pernicious to mankind Inflaming wine 533
1341
Horatio than are dreamt of in your philosophy There are more things in heaven
1342
Jangled out of tune Sweet bells 1024
1343
Measure of all things Man is the 673
1344
Doctor but himself No man therein 755
1345
Uncut hair of graves The Beautiful 79
1346
Happiest moments of the happiest and best minds Poetry is the record of the best and 874
1347
hear America 485
1348
Chess Life is too short for 613
1350
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