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The Winter's Tale QUOTES

The Winter's Tale QUOTES

1 " What you do
Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.
I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,
I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,
Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,
To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so,
And own no other function: each your doing,
So singular in each particular,
Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,
That all your acts are queens. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

2 " A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

3 " Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

4 " What a fool honesty is. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

5 " There's some ill planet reigns:
I must be patient till the heavens look
With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,
I am not prone to weeping, as our sex
Commonly are; the want of which vain dew
Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have
That honourable grief lodged here which burns
Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,
With thoughts so qualified as your charities
Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so
The king's will be perform'd! "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

6 " I have drunk and seen the spider. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

7 " Exit, pursued by a bear. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

8 " jog on, jog on the footpath way, / And merrily hent the stile-a; / A jovial heart goes all the day, / Your sad tires in a mile-a "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

9 " I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

10 " It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

11 " a wild dedication of yourselves
To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

12 " LEONTES                                              Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career Of laughter with a sigh?—a note infallible Of breaking honesty;—horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift; Hours, minutes; noon, midnight? and all eyes Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked?—is this nothing? Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing; The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing; My is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

13 " they have seem'd to be together, though absent; shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed winds. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

14 " Well may I get aboard. [He sees a bear.] This is the chase:
I am gone for ever! [Exist pursued by a bear.] "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

15 " Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold. The Winter's Tale, Act 4, Sc.4 "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

16 " LEONTES ~ A gross hag
And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd, That wilt not stay her tongue.
ANTIGONUS ~ Hang all the husbands
That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself Hardly one subject. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

17 " We were, fair queen, /

Two lads that thought there was no more behind /

But such a day to-morrow as to-day, /

And to be boy eternal. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

18 " Leontes is whispering nothing?
Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?
Kissing with inside lip? Stopping the career
Of laughter with a sigh?- a note infallible
Of breaking honesty. Horsing foot on foot?
Skulking in corners? Wishing clocks more swift;
Hours, minutes; noon, midnight? And all eyes
Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,
That would unseen be wicked - is this nothing?
Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;
The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,
If this be nothing. "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

19 " Here come those I have done good to against my will, "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale

20 " I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free... "

― William Shakespeare , The Winter's Tale