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• Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur.
  Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come....
• And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
  Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness....
• I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
  -- William Congreve (1670-1729) -- Love for Love, Act ii, Sc. 7...
• Gon. Here is everything advantageous to life. Ant. True
  ave means to live. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Egregiously an ass. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act ii, Sc. 1
• Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
  -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- The False One, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
  And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing....
• Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow, Thy element 's below.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Lear -- Act ii, Sc. 4...
• The ripest fruit first falls. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Richard II -- Act ii, Sc.
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