Chapter OATH to OFFENCE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

OATH to OFFENCE

OATH.—He that imposes an oath makes it,
Not he that for convenience takes it.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto II. Line 377.

You would seek to unsphere the stars with oaths.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Hermione to Polixenes.)

Another, with a bloody flux of oaths,
Vows deep revenge.

Quarles.—Book I. No. 8, Line 9.

OBEY.—I shall in all my best obey you, madam.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (To his Mother.)

OBJECTION.—Objectlon!—Let him object if he dare!

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

OBSCURE.—And through the palpable obscure find out
His uncouth way.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 406.

OBSERVATION.—Let observation, with extensive view,
Survey mankind from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Dr. Johnson.—Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.

OBSERVE.—I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness,
And show of love, as I was wont to have:
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand
Over your friend that loves you.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cassius to Brutus.)

The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,
The observ’d of all observers!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (Ophelia, after her interview with him.)

OCCASION.—Let me not let pass
Occasion, which now smiles.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 479.

OCEAN.—And I have loved thee, ocean! and my joy
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be
Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy
I wanton’d with thy breakers—they to me
Were a delight; and if the fresh’ning sea
Made them a terror—’twas a pleasing fear,
For I was as it were a child of thee,
And trusted to thy billows far and near,
And laid my hand upon thy mane—as I do here.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 184.

OFF.—Off goes his bonnet to an oyster wench.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act I. Scene 4. (The King to Aumerle with reference to Bolingbroke.)

Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.

Colley Cibber.—Altered by him from Shakespeare, Act IV.

For Somerset, off with his guilty head.