Love’s Labour’s Lost Quote Identification Quiz

“Too much to know is to know nought but fame.”

“When daisies pied and violets blue and lady-smocks all silver-white do paint the meadows with delight.”

“They have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.”

“O, we have made a vow to study, lords, and in that vow we have forsworn our books.”

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, live registered upon our brazen tombs.”

“This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.”

“Never durst poet touch a pen to write until his ink were tempered with love’s sighs.”

“From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive: they are the ground, the books, the academes.”

“The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen as is the razor’s edge invisible.”

“My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.”

“When icicles hang by the wall, and Dick the shepherd blows his nail.”

“By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme and to be melancholy.”

“Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from others’ books.”

“This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy; this senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid.”

“The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.”

“Your oath is passed to keep that which no honest man should keep.”

“I am for shaking off the yoke of courtly hypocrisy.”

“Fair ladies masked, are roses in their bud.”

“Thou art not so long by the head as honor, nor so big as fame.”

“If I were not a beggar, I would be a courtier.”

“A merrier man, within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour’s talk withal.”

“Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, not uttered by base sale of chapmen’s tongues.”

“I to love’s soldier am enlisted now.”

“Necessity will make us all forsworn three thousand times within this three years’ space.”

“Some men must love my lady, and some Joan.”

“O paradox! Black is the badge of hell, the hue of dungeons and the school of night.”

“Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails.”

“Let the court of France show me such another.”

“A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.”

“Your wit’s too hot, it speeds too fast, ’twill tire.”