Chapter REGULAR to REPROOF of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

REGULAR to REPROOF

REGULAR.—You are as regular in your irregularities, I find,
as ever.

O’Brien.—Cross Purposes, Act I. Scene 1.

REIGN.—Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven!

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 263.

REJOICE AND WEEP.—Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Romans.—Chap. XII. Verse 15.

To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal,
But sorrow flouted at is double death.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act III. Scene 1. (Marcus to Titus and others.)

As the human countenance smiles on those that smile, so does
it sympathize with those that weep.

Smart’s Horace, Art of Poetry.

RELIEF.—For this relief, much thanks.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 1. (Francisco to Bernardo.)

RELIGION.—Religion, if in heavenly truths attired,
Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Cowper.—Expostulation, Line 492.

Religion does not censure or exclude
Unnumber’d pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

Ibid.—Retirement, Line 783.

The dispute about religion,
And the practice of it, seldom go together.

Young.—Pref. to Night VI. Line 1.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

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

RELIGION.—A fellow that makes religion his stalking-horse.

Marston.—The Malcontent, Act IV. Scene 3.

REMEDY.—The remedy is worse than the disease.

Bacon.—Essay XV. on Seditions, last line.

Withdraw thy action, and depart in peace;
The remedy is worse than the disease.

Dryden’s Juvenal, Satire XVI.

Better that we awhile had borne
E’en all those ills which most displease,
Than sought a cure far worse than the disease.

Buckingham.—Chorus III. in Marcus Brutus.

REMEMBERED.—I’ve been so long remember’d, I am forgot.