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Quotes about Wind


Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

This is the short and the long of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

Like a fair house, built on another man's ground. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

Happy man be his dole! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.

William Shakespeare

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

As good luck would have it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

The rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

Think of that, Master Brook. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.

William Shakespeare

Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

In his old lunes again. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

So curses all Eve's daughters, of what complexion soever. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers…. There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

Sits the wind in that corner? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

William Shakespeare

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.

William Shakespeare

All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. How like a younker or a prodigal The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind! How like the prodigal doth she return, With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails, Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind! -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6.

William Shakespeare

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.

William Shakespeare

For why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind? The air is cut away before, And closes from behind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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