The Winter's Tale Quotes

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“I do feel it gone,
But know not how it went”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“What a fool honesty is.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“a wild dedication of yourselves
To undiscovered waters, undreamed shores.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“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

“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

“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

“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.”
― Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale: Readers Edition

“Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“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

“Here come those I have done good to against my will,”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“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

“I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful;
In every one of these no man is free...”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Age, thou hast lost thy labor.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“O, that is entertainment
My bosom likes not, nor my brows!”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“He says he loves my daughter. I think so too, for never gazed the moon upon the water as he'll stand and read as 'twere my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, I think there is not half a kiss to choose who loves another best.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“CAMILLO                                              Swear his thought over By each particular star in heaven and By all their influences, you may as well Forbid the sea for to obey the moon As, or by oath remove, or counsel shake The fabric of his folly, whose foundation Is pil'd upon his faith, and will continue The standing of his body.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“but I am sure ’t is safer to Avoid what’s grown than question how ’t is born.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Good my lord, be cured
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes.
For 'tis most dangerous.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen Forbiddenly.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“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

“cram's with praise, and make's
As fat as tame things.
One good deed dying tongueless
Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.
Our praises are our wages; you may ride's
With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere
With spur we heat an acre.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“O lords,
When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,
The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,
and vengeance for't
Not dropp'd down yet.”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

“Let boors and franklins say it, I'll swear it”
― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale