Chapter TRENCHER to TROY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TRENCHER to TROY

TRENCHER.—He is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent stomach.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act I. Scene 1. (Beatrice to Messenger.)

TRIAL.—You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller; and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. (Menenius to Brutus.)

TRICK.—I know a trick worth two of that.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 1. (The first Carrier to Gadshill.)

TRICKED.—Trick’d in antique ruff and bonnet.

Dr. Johnson.—Lines written in 1777.

TRICKS.—Tricks to show the stretch of human brain.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 47.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 2. (Brutus to Lucilius.)

TRIFLE.—Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Young.—Satire VI. Line 205.

Come gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,
And waste the time, which looks for other revels.

Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act II. Scene 3. (Simonides to the Knights.)

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Scene 2. (Autolycus.)

TRIFLES.—Trifles, light as air,
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago, after he has obtained the handkerchief.)

TRIMMERS.—Damn’d neuters, in their middle way of steering,
Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red- herring:
Nor whigs, nor tories they; nor this, nor that;
Nor birds, nor beasts; but just a kind of bat:
A twilight animal; true to neither cause,
With tory wings, but whiggish teeth and claws.

Dryden—Epilogue to the Duke of Guise.

TRIP.—Come, and trip it, as you go,
On the light fantastic toe.

Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 35.

TRIP.—Joint stools were then created; on three legs
Upborne they stood—three legs upholding firm
A massy slab, in fashion square or round.
On such a stool immortal Alfred sat.

Cowper.—The Sofa, Book I. Line 19.

As right as Trivet.