Chapter WIG to WIND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WIG to WIND

WIG.—The dowry of a second head,
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2. (Bassanio commenting on the Caskets.)

WILL.—My will is something sorted with his wish:
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;
For what I will, I will, and there an end.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 3. (Antonio to Proteus on hearing from him that Valentine desired his presence at the Emperor’s court.)

WILL.—He that will not when he may,
When he will, he shall have nay.

Burton.—Anat. of Melancholy, Part III. Sect. 2. Memb. 5. Subsect. 5.

He that wold not when he might,
He shall not when he wold—a.

Percy Reliques, Vol. II. The Baffled Knight.

He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still;
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known.

Bulter.—Hudibras, Part III. Canto III. Line 547.

She can’t help her temper; and, if she complies against her will, you know it is the more obliging in her.

Fielding.—The Different Husbands, Act I. Scene 1.

In idle wishes fools supinely stay,
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.

Crabbe.—The Birth of Flattery.

WIN.—The man who seeks to win the fair,
(So custom says) must truth forbear;
Must fawn and flatter, cringe and lie,
And raise the goddess to the sky.

Ed. Moore.—Fable 2.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III. Scene 1. (Valentine to the Duke.)

WIND.—The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
And you are staid for.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to his Son.)

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act II. Scene 5. (A Son who has killed his Father.)

Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act II. Scene 2. (The King to his Suite.)

While rocking winds are piping loud.

Milton.—II Penseroso, Line 126.

WIND.—The wind.
A sightless labourer, whistles at his work.