Dictionary of Quotations, English (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...too mean even for man--woman, lovely woman alone, can venture to commit them." Thackeray. A Shabby Genteel Story, Chap. III. "There are some moments in our fate That stamp the colour of our days, As, till then, life had not been felt." L. E. L. The Improvisatrice. "(Don't you know, as the French say), there are three sexes--men, women, and clergymen?" Sydney Sm1th. Memoirs. "There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveller, who says 'Anywhere, but here '." Emerson. Considerations by the Way. "There are times When simplest things put on a sombre cast." Keats. Otho the Great, Act IV., Sc. I. "There are worse losses than the loss of youth." Jean Ingelow. The Star's Monument. "There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse." Sterne. Sentimental Journey. "There are worse pangs than those of want." Bulwer Lytton. Eugene Aram (Eugene Aram), Bk. I., Chap. VIII. "There be many Caesars, Ere such another Julius. Britain is A world by itself; and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses." Shakespeare. Cymbeline (Cloten), Act III., Sc. I. "There be some sports are painful; but their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends." Shakespeare. The Tempest (Ferdinand), Act III., Sc. I. "There breathes no being but has some pretence To that fine instinct called poetic sense." O. W. Holmes. Poetry. THERE BURNS--THERE IS A TEAR. There burns the quenchless Poetry--Mankind " Bulwer Lytton. The New Timon, Pt. II., I. There is a...