| Cym V.i.15 | [Posthumus alone, to the gods] you some permit / To second ills with ills, each elder worse, / And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift [i.e. they benefit from having the chance to avoid sin] |
| Ham III.ii.193 | [Second Player as Queen to her King] base respects of thrift |
| Ham III.ii.72 | [Hamlet to Horatio] thrift may follow fawning |
| MV I.i.175 | [Bassanio to Antonio, of wooing Portia] I have a mind presages me such thrift / That I should questionless be fortunate |
| MV I.iii.47 | [Shylock to himself, of Antonio] he rails ... / On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, / Which he calls interest |
| WT I.ii.311 | [Leontes to Camillo, of his servants] that bare eyes / To see alike mine honour as their profits, / Their own particular thrifts |