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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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the line number is certain, and in square brackets where prose makes it variable. All references<br />

are to the <strong>Oxford</strong> Standard Authors Shakespeare in one volume.<br />

7.66.1 All’s Well that Ends Well<br />

It were all one<br />

That I should love a bright particular star<br />

And think to wed it, he is so above me.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [97]<br />

<strong>The</strong> hind that would be mated with the lion<br />

Must die <strong>of</strong> love.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [103]<br />

Your virginity, your old virginity, is like one <strong>of</strong> our French withered pears; it looks ill, it eats<br />

drily.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [176]<br />

Our remedies <strong>of</strong>t in ourselves do lie<br />

Which we ascribe to heaven.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 1, sc. 1, l. [235]<br />

It is like a barber’s chair that fits all buttocks.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 2, sc. 2, l. [18]<br />

A young man married is a man that’s marred.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [315]<br />

I know a man that had this trick <strong>of</strong> melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 3, sc. 2, l. [8]<br />

<strong>The</strong> web <strong>of</strong> our life is <strong>of</strong> a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if<br />

our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own<br />

virtues.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 4, sc. 3, l. [83]<br />

<strong>The</strong> flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 5, sc. 5, l. [58].<br />

Praising what is lost<br />

Makes the remembrance dear.<br />

‘All’s Well that Ends Well’ (1603-4) act 5, sc. 3, l. 19<br />

7.66.2 Antony And Cleopatra<br />

<strong>The</strong> triple pillar <strong>of</strong> the world transformed<br />

Into a strumpet’s fool.<br />

‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 1, sc.1, l. 12<br />

Cleopatra: If it be love indeed, tell me how much.<br />

Antony: <strong>The</strong>re’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.<br />

Cleopatra: I’ll set a bourn how far to be belov’d.

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