Pericles Quotes

“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“For death remembered should be like a mirror,
Who tells us life’s but breath, to trust it error.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan the outward habit by the inward man.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“O,come,be buried
A second time within these arms (They embrace)”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Who makes the fairest show means the most deceit.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“For truth can never be confirmed enough,
Though doubts did ever sleep.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“O, that the gods
Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,
Though they did change me to the meanest bird
That flies i' the purer air!”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
last devours them all at a mouthful:”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“We cannot but obey the powers above us.
Could I rage and roar as doth the sea
She lies in, yet the end must be as ’tis.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Sit down: thou art no flatterer:
I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid
That kings should let their ears hear their
faults hid!”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Those palates who, not yet two summers younger, must have inventions to delight the taste, would now be glad of bread, and beg for it.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles: Prince of Tyre

“Here our play has ending.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“The purple violets and marigolds
Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave
While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid,
Born in a tempest when my mother died,
This world to me is as a lasting storm”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart
That ever cracks for woe. {...}”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please.
I cannot be much lower than my knees.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“Tell thy story; / If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part / Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I / Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look / Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling / Extremity out of act.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles

“He seems to be a stranger, but his present is
A withered branch that's only green at top,
The motto, In hac spe vivo.”
― William Shakespeare, Pericles