=Pulpit.=

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
1405
BUTLER:  Hudibras, Pt. i, Canto i., Line 11.

=Punishment.=

Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive, and to thy speed, add wings.
1406
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ii., Line 699.

=Purity.=

’Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.
1407
BYRON:  Siege of Corinth, St. 21.

=Purpose.=

Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse;
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.
1408
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 5.

=Purse.=

Who steals my purse steals trash; ’t is something, nothing; ’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands. 1409 SHAKS.:  Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Pygmies.=

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 1410 YOUNG:  Night Thoughts, Night vi., Line 309.

==Q.==

=Quacks.=

Out, you impostors! 
Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!—­your skill
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.
1411
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.
1412
CRABBE:  Borough, Letter vii., Line 75.

=Quakers.=

Upright Quakers please both man and God. 1413 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.
1414
HOOD:  All Round my Hat.

=Quarrels.=

Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel:  but, being in,
Bear ’t that the opposed may beware of thee: 
1415
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.

They who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose.
1416
GAY:  Fables, Pt. i., Fable 34.

=Queen.=

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. 1417 POPE:  Iliad, Bk. iii., Line 208.

=Quickness.=

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. 1418 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 97.

=Quiet.=

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 1419 BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto iii., St. 42.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. 1420 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:  The Cathedral.

=Quips.=

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,
Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.
1421
MILTON:  L’Allegro, Line 25.

=Quotation.=

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 1422 SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 3.