The Comedy of Errors Quotes

“A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with light weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“We came into the world like brother and brother,
And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:
So I, to find a mother and a brother,
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“I to the world am like a drop of water
That in the ocean seeks another drop,
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with Time's deformed hand
Have written strange defeatures in my face.
But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink,
Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Until I know this sure uncertainty,
I'll entertain the offered fallacy.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,
to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised?
I'll say as they say, and persever so,
And in this mist at all adventures go.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Ill deeds is doubled with an evil word.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,
My woes end likewise with the evening sun.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,
I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“What is the course and drift of your compact?”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Why should their liberty than ours be more?”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Return'd so soon! Rather approached too late: the capron burns, the pig falls from the spit, the clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; my mistress made it one upon my cheek: she is hot because the meat is cold; the meat is cold because you have no stomach, you have no stomach, having broke your fast; but we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray, are pentent for your default today.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“The pleasing punishment that women bare....”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“But here must end the story of my life,
And happy were I in my timely death
Could all my travels warrant me they live.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind;
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“The venom clamours of a jealous woman,
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog’s tooth.
It seems his sleeps were hinder’d by thy railing:
And thereof comes it that his head is light.
Thou say’st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:
Unquiet meals make ill digestions;
Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;
And what’s a fever but a fit of madness?
Thou say’st his sports were hinder’d by thy brawls:
Sweet recreation barr’d, what doth ensue
But moody and dull melancholy,
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair;
And at her heels a huge infectious troop
Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?
In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest
To be disturb’d, would mad or man or beast:
The consequence is, then, thy jealous fits
Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,
And strike you home without a messenger.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“Los hombres son dueños de su libertad. Sólo el tiempo es su señor y cuando les parece van o vienen.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

“In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.
DROMIO OF EPHESUS They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Annotated

“I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long 'ears.
I have served him from the hour of my
nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his
hands for my service but blows.
When I am cold heats me with beating; when I am warm he cools me with beating.
I am wak' d with it when I sleep; rais'd with it when I sit; driven out of doors with it when I go from home; welcom'd home with it when I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, I shall beg with it from door to door.”
― William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors