| 2H4 V.ii.34 | [Clarence to Lord Chief Justice] you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair, / Which swims against your stream of quality [also: profession] |
| AC I.i.54 | [Antony to Cleopatra] Tonight we'll wander through the streets and note / The qualities of people |
| AC I.ii.192 | [Antony to Enobarbus, of Pompey] whose quality, going on, / The sides o'th' world may danger [or: sense 2] |
| H8 I.ii.84 | [Wolsey to King Henry] what worst, as oft / Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up / For our best act [or: level of achievement] |
| JC I.iii.64 | [Cassius to Casca] Why birds and beasts from quality and kind ... change from their ordinance |
| JC I.iii.68 | [Cassius to Casca, of weird happenings] Why all these things change from their ordinance ... / To monstrous quality |
| KL I.ii.12 | [Edmund alone] Who ... take / More composition and fierce quality [i.e. has a more active disposition] |
| KL I.ii.34 | [Gloucester to Edmund, of Edmund's hiding his letter] The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself |
| KL II.iv.132 | [Lear to Regan, of Gonerill] how depraved a quality |
| KL II.iv.88 | [Gloucester to Lear, of Cornwall] You know the fiery quality of the Duke |
| Luc.1702 | [Lucrece to all] What is the quality of my offence |
| Luc.875 | [Lucrece to herself] We have no good that we can say is ours / But ill-annexed Opportunity / Or kills his life or else his quality |
| MV III.ii.6 | [Portia to Bassanio] you ... / Hate counsels not in such a quality |
| MV IV.i.181 | [Portia as Balthasar to Shylock] The quality of mercy is not strained |
| MW II.ii.208 | [Falstaff to Ford as Brook, of Mistress Ford] Of what quality was your love, then? |
| Oth I.iii.248 | [Desdemona to Duke, of Othello] My heart's subdued / Even to the very quality of my lord [F; Q1 pleasure] |
| Tim I.i.56 | [Poet to Painter] As well of glib and slipp'ry creatures as / Of grave and austere quality, tender down / Their services to Lord Timon |
| Tim IV.iii.157 | [Timon to all] Hoar the flamen, / That scolds against the quality of flesh [i.e. the natural desires of the flesh] |
| TN III.i.61 | [Viola alone, of Feste] He must observe ... / The quality of persons |
| TN III.iii.32 | [Antonio to Sebastian] the quality of the time and quarrel / Might well have given us bloody argument |
| TNK V.iii.48 | [Emilia to herself, of Palamon] his brow ... alters to / The quality of his thoughts [i.e. according to the mood he is in] |