User:KarenJoyce/Shakespeare

Search string for finding pages in need of Shakespeare quotations
By searching Wiktionary for the string "Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare", I'm able to find the entries in need of a quotation.

Here's the direct URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=Can+we+find+and+add+a+quotation+of+Shakespeare&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go

Shakespeare's Words
I use the excellent resource Shakespeare's Words to search for the dictionary words lacking quotations. Sometimes I have to vary the spelling. If there's a glossary entry with the same sense as the Wiktionary definition, score! If not, I read the lines from the play or poem to see if any of them sound right.

Sample quotations for each play or sonnet
I use these templates to add quotations. These are roughly alphabetized by title, ignoring initial "The", "The Tragedy of", "King", etc.

Some quotes may be from plays other than noted here due to copying & pasting. I just use the samples to capture the Wikisource links for each work.


 * 1) * 1598, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, IV. ii. 27:
 * This has no holding, / To swear by him whom I protest to love / That I will work against him.

Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
 * 1) * 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, V. ii. 215:


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, II. vi. 13:
 * Thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with / thee quickly.


 * 1) * 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, V. i. 51:
 * Hath not else his eye / Strayed his affection in unlawful love,


 * 1) * 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, I. i. 98:
 * Still cupboarding the viand,

NOTE: Hamlet has separate Wikisource pages for each act.


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Ham II. i. 65:
 * With windlasses and with assays of bias, / By indirections find directions out.


 * 1) * 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, IV. iii. 79:
 * You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.


 * 1) * 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, I. ii. 50:
 * You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, I. i. 46:
 * The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter;


 * 1) * 1592, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, IV. vi. 39:
 * In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, / My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.


 * 1) * 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, V. i. 34:
 * My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.


 * 1) * 1595, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, IV. i. 130:
 * Go levy men, and make prepare for war;


 * 1) * 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, V. i. 52:
 * Tomorrow morning to the Council board / He be convented.


 * 1) * 1596, William Shakespeare,  The Life and Death of King John, V. i. 3:
 * Take again / From this my hand, as holding of the Pope / Your sovereign greatness and authority.


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 109:
 * You are contented to be led in triumph / Thorough the streets of Rome?


 * 1) * 1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, IV. vii. 48:
 * If but as well I other accents borrow / That can my speech defuse,


 * 1) * 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, III. i. 11:
 * but to jig off a tune at / the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet,


 * 1) * 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, IV. i. 23:
 * Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,


 * 1) * 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure, for Measure, III. ii. 164:
 * This / ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with / continency.


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, III. i. 110:
 * and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,


 * 1) * 1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, III. ii. 287:
 * What, will you tear / Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?


 * 1) * 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice, II. iii. 186:
 * The gravity and stillness of your youth / The world hath noted;


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, V. ii. 12:
 * Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.


 * 1) * 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, II. iii. 29:
 * These cates resist me,


 * 1) * 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece:
 * To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:


 * 1) * 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, I. iii. 66:
 * But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.


 * 1) * 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, IV. i. 10:
 * To gratulate the gentle princes there.


 * 1) * 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, II. iv. 134:
 * But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.


 * 1) * 1594, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, IV. i. 178:
 * My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure.


 * 1) * 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 14:
 * Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.


 * 1) * 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, IV. i. 180:
 * through / Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,


 * 1) * 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, I. i. 95:
 * A thousand moral paintings I can show / That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's / More pregnantly than words.


 * 1) * 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, IV. i. 124:
 * O heavens, can you hear a good man groan / And not relent, or not compassion him?


 * 1) * 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, I. iii. 205:
 * They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, V. i. 379:
 * [Sir Toby]: and for his / cowardship, ask Fabian. / [Fabian]: A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it!


 * 1) * 1599, William Shakespeare,  The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 124:
 * Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,


 * 1) * 1613, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, III. vi. 86:
 * Is not this piece too strait? / No, no, 'tis well.