Chapter BULLET to BUSINESS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

BULLET to BUSINESS

BULLET.—The bullet has its billet.

Old Play; Scott.—Count Robert of Paris, Chap. XXV.

BURKE.—Oft have I wonder’d that on Irish ground
No poisonous reptiles ever yet were found:
Reveal’d the secret stands of Nature’s work;
She saved her venom to create a Burke.

Warren Hastings.—An epigram produced by him when writhing under the agony of a protracted prosecution. (Encyc. Brit. Vol. XI. p. 164; 7th edition.)

Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it, too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow’d his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Goldsmith.—Retaliation, Line 29.

BURKE.—One large of soul, of genius unconfined,
Born to delight, instruct, and mend mankind;
Burke! in whose breast a Roman ardour glow’d;
Whose copious tone with Grecian richness flow’d;
Well hast thou found, if such thy country’s doom,
A timely refuge in the sheltering tomb.

Canning.—New Morality.

Born not for himself alone, but for the whole world.

Lucan; Cicero.—Riley’s Dict. Class. Quot. pp. 253, 281, 285.

Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit;
For a patriot too cool; for a drudge disobedient;
And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient.

Goldsmith.—Retaliation, Line 37.

BURN.—One fire burns out another’s burning.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Benvolio to Romeo.)

Come, we burn daylight.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 4. (Mercutio to Romeo.)

BUSH.—Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act V. Scene 6. (Gloster to the King.)

Or, in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos’d a bear!

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus to Hippolyta.)

BUSINESS.—I am going to parliament;
You understand this bag: if you have any business
Depending there, be short and let me hear it—
And pay your fees.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Little French Lawyer, Act I. Scene 1.

He that attends to his interior self,
That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind
That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks
A social, not a dissipated life,
Has business.

Cowper.—The Garden, Line 373.