The Winters Tale Quotes Quiz will test your ability to tell the difference between the venomous ramblings of a king and the lyrical wisdom of a long-lost daughter. Most have difficulty placing these lines once they have been lifted out of the action of the scene. Can you name the author of these famous lines?
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The Winters Tale Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Too hot, too hot! To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”
- “There’s some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect more favorable.”
- “Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?”
- “This jealousy is for a precious creature.”
- “I am a feather for each wind that blows.”
- “Exit, pursued by a bear.”
- “It is required you do awake your faith.”
- “Thou met’st with things dying, I with things newborn.”
- “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating.”
- “Now bless thyself: thou met’st with things dying, I with things newborn.”
- “There may be in the cup a spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, and yet partake no venom.”
- “Good Paulina, who hast the memory of Hermione, I know, in honor.”
- “For behold me, a fellow of the royal bed, which owe a moiety of the throne.”
- “If one by one you wedded all the world, or from the all that are took something good, to make a perfect woman, she you kill’d would be unparallel’d.”
- “Grace to boot! Of this make no conclusion, lest you say your queen and I are devils.”
- “The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
- “Let winter come; it only brings decay.”
- “Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”
- “Go thy ways, we’ll talk anon.”
- “Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead may walk again.”
- “I have drunk, and seen the spider.”
- “Thy mother plays, and I play too, but so disgraced a part.”
- “This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.”
- “Thou dost approve thyself the very same thy mother was; she hath one voice, one eye, one hand, and one heart.”
- “Every wink of an eye some new grace will be born.”
- “Your honor and your goodness is so evident, that your free undertaking cannot miss a thriving issue.”
- “I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances, but not for joy.”
- “O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause to be suspected of more tenderness than doth become a man.”
- “Though they would not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.”
- “Nothing she does or seems but smacks of something greater than herself.”