King John Quote Identification Quiz

“O fair affliction, peace!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!”

“There is no sure foundation set on blood.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Your strong possession much more than your right.”

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

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

“Heat me these irons hot.”

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

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

“Commodity, the bias of the world.”