This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
ALONSO: What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! : Marvelous sweet music! The Tempest, Act iii, Scene 3
Will |
Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us. Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 1
O hearken the words of his voice of compassion: "come cling round about me, ye faithful who sicken of the weary unrest and the world's passing fashions! As the rain in mid-morning your troubles shall thicken, but surely within you some godhead doth quicken, as ye cry to me heeding, and leading you home."
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.
Men |
Passion often makes fools of the ablest men, and able men of the mow foolish.
Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, hast thou, according to thy oath and band, brought hither Henry Hereford, thy bold son, here to make good the boist'rous late appeal, which then our leisure would not le us hear, against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray? King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.
Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore should I repent me; but once put out thy light, thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat that can thy light relume. Othello, scene ii
At the same time, freedom of trade regardless of political control is diminishing the comparative value of extension of territory.
Practice |
Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou, I'll endanger my soul gratis?
Shall we upon the footing of our land Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, Insinuation, parley, and base truce, To arms invasive?
She will not stay the siege of loving terms, nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.
Will |
Shadows tonight have struck more terror to the soul of Richard than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.
Ellen Glasgow, fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome...
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
Man |