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

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. Ham., iii. 2.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at. Othello, i. 1.

I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. Johnson.

I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. Macb., v. 3.

I would choose to have others for my acquaintance, 20 but Englishmen for my friends. Goldsmith.

I would condone many things in one-and-twenty now, that I dealt hardly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a second chance. J. M. Barrie.

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. Lacretelle.

I would fain avoid men; we can give them no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. Goethe.

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. Hen. V., iii. 2.

I would have been glad to have lived under 25 my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this. Cromwell.