Q.
Quacks.
Out, you impostors!
Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!—your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
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MASSINGER: Virgin-Martyr, Act iv., Sc. 1.
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,
The daring tribe compound their boasted trash—
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
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CRABBE: Borough, Letter vii., Line 75.
Quakers.
Upright Quakers please both man and God.
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POPE: Dunciad, Bk. iv., Line 208.
The Quaker loves an ample brim,
A hat that bows to no salaam;
And dear the beaver is to him
As if it never made a dam.
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HOOD: All Round my Hat.
Quarrels.
Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,
Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee:
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SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.
They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
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GAY: Fables, Pt. i., Fable 34.
Queen.
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.
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POPE: Iliad, Bk. iii., Line 208.
Quickness.
With too much quickness ever to be taught;
With too much thinking to have common thought.
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POPE: Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 97.
Quiet.
Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
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BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 42.
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: The Cathedral.
Quips.
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.
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MILTON: L'Allegro, Line 25.
Quotation.
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
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SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3.
Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations
By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.
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POPE: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 103.