Chapter GREAT to GRIEF of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Lee.—Alexander the Great, Act IV. Scene 2. 1. Did Cicero say any thing? 2. Ay, he spoke Greek. 1. To what effect? 2. Nay, an I tell you that, I’ll ne’er look you i’ th’ face again: But those that understood him smiled at one another, and shook their heads: but, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cassius and Casca.) 1. But did you understand ’em, brother? 2. I tell you, no. What does that signify? the very sound’s a sufficient comfort to an honest man.

Colley Cibber.—Love Makes a Man, Act I.

GRIEF.—To this sad shrine, whoe’er thou art! draw near,
Here lies the Friend most lov’d, the Son most dear;
Who ne’er knew joy, but friendship might divide,
Or gave his Father grief but when he died.

Pope.—Epitaph on Harcourt.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 2. (Benedick to Claudio.)

’Tis better to be lowly born,
And range with humble lives in content,
Than to be perk’d up in a glistening grief,
And wear a golden sorrow.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act II. Scene 3. (Anne Bullen to an Old Lady.)

Some griefs are med’cinable.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act III. Scene 2. (Imogen on receiving a Letter from her Husband.)

GRIEF.—Where the greater malady is fixed,
The lesser is scarce felt.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (The King to Kent.)

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (The Duke to Brabantio.)

What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 2. (Paulina to a Lord.)

In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself—
As women wish to be who love their lords.

Home.—Douglas, Act I. Scene 1.