Take the Love’s Labour’s Lost Quotes Quiz to find out if you can really tell the difference between Berowne’s passionate outbursts and Armado’s bombastic prose. Name the author of these lines before the hour strikes.
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Love’s Labour’s Lost Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, live registered upon our brazen tombs.”
- “A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s talk withal.”
- “Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails.”
- “They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.”
- “Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from others’ books.”
- “Too much to know is to know nought but fame.”
- “Necessity will make us all forsworn three thousand times within this three years’ space.”
- “If I were not a beggar, I would be a courtier.”
- “I to love’s soldier am enlisted now.”
- “Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues.”
- “By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme and to be melancholy.”
- “My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”
- “Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.”
- “Let the court of France show me such another.”
- “Fair ladies masked, are roses in their bud.”
- “The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.”
- “From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: they are the ground, the books, the academes.”
- “A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”
- “This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; this senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid.”
- “O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, the hue of dungeons and the school of night.”
- “Your wit’s too hot, it speeds too fast, ’twill tire.”
- “I am for shaking off the yoke of courtly hypocrisy.”
- “When daisies pied and violets blue and lady-smocks all silver-white do paint the meadows with delight.”
- “When icicles hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd blows his nail.”
- “Your oath is passed to keep that which no honest man should keep.”
- “Thou art not so long by the head as honor, nor so big as fame.”
- “Some men must love my lady, and some Joan.”
- “This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.”
- “The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen as is the razor’s edge invisible.”
- “O, we have made a vow to study, lords, and in that vow we have forsworn our books.”