Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say aye; / And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear'st, / Thou may'st prove false; at lovers' perjuries / They say Jove laughs. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight / Adonis painted by a running brook; / And Cytherea all in sedges hid; / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath; / Even as the waving sedges play with wind. Tam. the Shrew, Ind. 2.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there are to be no more cakes and ale? Twelfth Night, ii. 3.
Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. Emerson.
Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every 10 duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. Kingsley.
Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. Thy second duty will already have become clearer. Carlyle.
Do thine own task, and be therewith content. Goethe.
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Much Ado, ii. 3.
Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, / Or wilt thou go ask the mole? William Blake.
Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know, / 15 Great men can do their greatest work no better than just so. Goethe.
Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn, and caldron bubble. Macb., iv. 1.
Double, double toil and trouble; that is the life of all governors that really govern; not the spoil of victory, only the glorious toil of battle can be theirs. Carlyle.
Double entendre—A double meaning. Fr.
Double entente—Double signification. Fr.
Doubting the reality of love leads to doubting 20 everything. Amiel.
Doubting things go ill often hurts more / Than to be sure they do. Cymbeline, i. 7.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. H. Ballou.
Doubt is the abettor of tyranny. Amiel.
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Colton.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being 25 cheated as to cheat. Butler.
Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action. Goethe.
Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; / But never doubt I love. Ham., ii. 2.
Douceur—A bribe. Fr.
Do ut des—I give that you may give. Maxim of Bismarck.
Doux yeux—Tender glances. Fr. 30
Dove bisognan rimedj, il sospirar non vale—Where remedies are needed, sighing is of no use. It. Pr.
Dove è grand'amore, quivi è gran dolore—Where the love is great the pain is great. It. Pr.
Dove è il Papa, ivi è Roma—Where the Pope is, Rome is. It. Pr.
Dove è l'amore, là è l'occhio—Where love is, there the eye is. It. Pr.
Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna—When 35 wine enters modesty goes. It. Pr.
Dove la voglia è pronta, le gambe son leggiere—When the will is prompt, the legs are light. It. Pr.
Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt a' men. Sc. Pr.
Do we not all submit to death? The highest sentence of the law, sentence of death, is passed on all of us by the fact of birth; yet we live patiently under it, patiently undergo it when the hour comes. Carlyle.
Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, / The love of love. Tennyson, of the poet.
Do what he will, he cannot realise / Half he 40 conceives—the glorious vision flies; / Go where he may, he cannot hope to find / The truth, the beauty pictured in the mind. Rogers.
Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat. Emerson.
Down, thou climbing sorrow; / Thy element's below. King Lear, ii. 4.
Downward to climb and backward to advance. Pope.
Downy sleep, death's counterfeit. Macb., iii. 2.
Do you think the porter and the cook have no 45 anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Emerson.
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Napoleon.
Dramatis personæ—Characters represented.
Draw thyself from thyself. Goethe.
Dream after dream ensues, / And still they dream that they shall still succeed / And still are disappointed. Cowper.
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no 50 end to illusion. Emerson.
Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. / When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable soul run mad. Dryden.
Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. Amiel.
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beams of the sun. Dickens.
Dreams are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which are as thin of substance as the air, / And more inconstant than the wind. Rom. and Jul., i. 4.
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, / Are a substantial world, both pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and our happiness will grow. Wordsworth.
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Ham., ii. 2.
Dreams, in general, take their rise from those incidents that have occurred during the day. Herodotus.
Dreams in their development have breath / 5 And tears and torture and the touch of joy; / They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts; / They take a weight from off our waking toils; / They do divide our being; they become a portion of ourselves as of our time, / And look like heralds of eternity. Byron.
Dreigers vechten niet—Those who threaten don't fight. Dut. Pr.
Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Sir J. Barrington.
Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.