“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”
Source: As You Like It
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“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours.”
Book 1, Chapter 9
Source: Scaramouche
The Welsh Harp
More Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1917)
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 95.
“Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.”
Aeneis, Book I, lines 889–890.
The Works of Virgil (1697)
“My soul to-day
Is far away
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.”
Drifting.
“I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.”
On TMZ, February 28 2011
"The Bay of Dublin", line 1; p. 124.
Songs, Poems, & Verses (1894)
“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”
Letter to Robert Bridges (13 October 1886)
Letters, etc
“I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.”
As quoted in Guitar World, September 1988