What dire offence from amorous causes springs! / What mighty contests rise from trivial things! Pope.
What distinguishes Christianity from all monotheistic religions lies in nothing else than in a making-dead to the law, the removal of the Kantian imperative; instead of which Christianity requires a free inclination. Schiller.
What divine, what truly great thing has ever been effected by force of public opinion? Carlyle.
What do I gain from a man into whose eyes I cannot look when he is speaking, and the mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair of glasses which dazzle me? Goethe.
What do you mean by composing tragedies, when Tragedy in person stalks every street? (?)
What does competency in the long-run mean? It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. Whipple.
Wha' does the utmost that he can, / Will whyles (sometimes) do mair. Burns.
What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? / And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity? 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.
What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do 5 justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Bible.
What exile from himself can flee? Byron.