| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 51314 |
| QUOTATION: | My fate cries out,
And makes each petty artery in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion’s nerve. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 4, l. 81-3.
Desperately trying, against his companions’ persuasion, to follow his father’s ghost; “Nemean lion”Mslain by Hercules as one of his twelve labors; “nerve” means sinew. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Shakespeare Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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