Chapter BREACH to BUILDING of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

BREACH to BUILDING

BREACH.—Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more:
Or close the wall up with our English dead!

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act III. Scene 1. (The King and his army before Harfleur.)

BREAD.—Thou shalt by trial know what bitter fare
Is others’ bread;—how hard the path to go
Upward and downward by another’s stair.

Dante.—Paradiso, Canto XVII. Line 58. (Wright.)

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

Ecclesiastes.—Chap. XI. Verse 1.

BREAKFAST.—Their breakfast so warm, to be sure they did eat,
A custom in travellers mighty discreet.

Prior.—Downhall, a ballad.

And then to breakfast with what appetite you have.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act III. Scene 2. (The King to his Lords, but frowning at Wolsey.)

1. Is breakfast ready, mine host?
2. It is, my little Hebrew.

Anonymous.—The Merry Devil of Edmonton. Last Scene.

BRIEF.—Brevity is the soul of wit.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Polonius to the King and Queen.)

Brief, boy, brief!

Fletcher.—The Woman Hater, Act I. Scene 2.

1. ’Tis brief, my lord,
2. As woman’s love.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (Hamlet and Ophelia at the Play.)

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 3. (Richard to Ratcliffe.)

BRITAIN.—But Britain, changeful as a child at play,
Now calls in princes, and now turns away;
Now Whig, now Tory, what we lov’d we hate;
Now all for pleasure, now for Church or State;
Now for Prerogative, and now for Laws;
Effects unhappy! from a noble cause.

Pope.—To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 155.

BROOKS.—Such Brooks are welcome to me that o’erflow such liquor.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Scene 2. (Falstaff’s play on the name of Master Brooks.)

BRUTUS.—Brutus is an honourable man,
So are they all, all honourable men.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene I. (Mark Anthony’s oration on Cæsar’s death.)

BUBBLES.—Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.