Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

'Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man. Henry VIII., v. 2.

'Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort. Pr. 40

'Tis a good ill that comes alone. Pr.

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

'Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end. Meas. for Meas., iv. 6.

'Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity 45 makes the most poets. Farquhar.

'Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it. Rich. III., iii. 2.

'Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one. The Witch of Edmonton.