What rein can hold licentious wickedness / When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Hen. V., iii. 3.
What religion do I profess! None of all you 25 name to me. Why none? Out of respect to religion. Schiller.
What right have you, O passer-by-the-way, to call any flower a weed? Do you know its merits, its virtues, its healing qualities? Because a thing is common, shall you despise it? If so, you might despise the sunshine for the same reason. Anon.
What rights are his that dare not strike for them? Tennyson.
"What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after them?" "After them! Nay, before them if we can." 2 Hen. VI., v. 3.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue! Burke.
What shall be, shall be—that is all; / To one 30 great Will we stand and fall, / "The Scheme hath need"—we ask not why, / And in this faith we live or die. Lewis Morris.
What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it, He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's begun, thou must move and not rest; / For sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, / And running, not raging, will win thee the race. Goethe.
What signifies the life o' man / An' twerna for the lasses, O? Burns.
What signifies the loss of a Hercules even to the loss of an idea? Ed.