King John Quote Identification Quiz

“Heat me these irons hot.”

“Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.”

“A thousand businesses are brief in hand, and heaven itself doth frown upon the land.”

“Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!”

“Here’s a good world! Knew you of this fair work?”

“Here once again we sit, once again crown’d.”

“Sirrah, your brother is legitimate; your father’s wife did after wedlock bear him.”

“There’s law and warrant, lady, for my curse.”

“Now by my life, this day grows wondrous hot.”

“Have I not hideous death within my view, retaining but a quantity of life?”

“It ill beseems this presence to cry aim to these ill-tuned repetitions.”

“To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.”

“O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow, teach thou this sorrow how to make me die.”

“The iron of itself, though heat red-hot, approaching near these eyes would drink my tears.”

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child.”

“Your strong possession much more than your right.”

“Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”

“Commodity, the bias of the world.”

“Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace.”

“The devil tempts thee here in likeness of a new untrimmed youth.”

“When I am king, I will be as true a king as ever reigned.”

“O fair affliction, peace!”

“By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings.”

“This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”

“I am not mad; this hair I tear is mine.”

“Thou art a strange fellow: a lordly beggar.”

“O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty.”

“England now is left to tug and scamble and to part by th’ teeth the unowed interest of proud-swelling state.”

“O, lawful let it be that I have room with Rome to curse awhile!”

“There is no sure foundation set on blood.”