Why so large cost, having so short a lease, / Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shakespeare.
Why such heat (crushing superstition)? Other nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost sure to follow. Frederick the Great to Voltaire.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it 30 is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Carlyle.
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Why, universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as itself? Ham., i. 4.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. Schopenhauer.
Wickedness is its own punishment. Quarles. 35
Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does. Tillotson.
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. Jesus.