Chapter HUNGRY to IGNORANCE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

HUNGRY to IGNORANCE

HUNGRY.—1. Ah! I am not hungry now. 2. What do you mean by that, Mr. Placid? I insist on your being hungry

Mrs. Inchbald.—Every One has His Fault, Act I. Scene 1.

HUSBAND.—A good husband makes a good wife at any
time.

Farquhar.—The Inconstant, Act II.

HYPERION.—So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a Satyr.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (On his Mother’s marriage.)

“Hesperion curls—the front of Job himself!—
An eye, like March, to threaten at command!—
A station, like Harry Mercury.”

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.

HYPOCRICY.—You that would sell no man mustard to his beef on the Sabbath, and yet sold hypocricy all your lifetime.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—Love’s Cure, Act II. Scene 1.

Hypocricy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

Fuller.

HYSTERICS.—Oh, it gives me the hydrostatics!

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act III. Scene 3.

IDLE—IDLER.—How various his employments, whom the world
Calls idle; and who justly, in return,
Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 352.

IDOLATRY.—The vain image, which the devotee
Classes as the god of his idolatry.

James Montgomery.—Greeland, Canto I. near the end.

IF.—Your If is the only peace-maker,—
Much virtue in If.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act V. Scene 4. (Touchstone to Jaques.)

If the French should beat the English?—If the sun go out of the zodiac?

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. V. Chap. XLIII.

IGNORANCE.—“O ye gods,” says a wise heathen, “deny us what we ask, if it shall be hurtful to us, and grant us whatever shall be profitable for us, even though we do not ask it!”

Francis’ Horace, in a Note to Book I. Ode 31.

The good unasked, in mercy grant;
The ill, though asked, deny.

Merrick.—A Hymn, No. CCXXV. in the Rev. W. Mercer’s Church Psalter.