Do you really have the wit to tell the biting Apemantus from the vitriol of the late Timon? Many lines of dialogue sound similar until you look at the specific target of their scornful rhetoric. Test your ear for Elizabethan irony with the Timon Of Athens Quotes Quiz
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Timon Of Athens Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”
- “I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.”
- “Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?”
- “I gave it freely ever; and there’s none can truly say he gives, if he receives.”
- “This yellow slave will knit and break religions.”
- “The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends.”
- “Who seeks those vessels which none else will use?”
- “Lord Timon, I would it were not so!”
- “O you gods, why this? What this, you gods?”
- “What need we have any friends, if we should ne’er have need of them?”
- “I bleed inwardly for my lord.”
- “Promising is the very air o’ the time.”
- “O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!”
- “The moon’s an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”
- “Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft.”
- “I’ll nothing give thee, then, nor will I receive.”
- “Let not that part of nature which my lord paid for be of any power to expel sickness.”
- “I am sick of this false world, and will love nought but even the mere necessities upon’t.”
- “I’ll meet you at the turn. What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”
- “O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth rotten humidity.”
- “There’s none can truly say he gives, if he receives.”
- “The swallow follows not summer more willingly than we your lordship.”
- “What do you think the hour?”
- “Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall that girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth.”
- “You shall see me once more at the fall of your great fortunes.”
- “The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves the moon into salt tears.”
- “I am wealthy in my friends.”
- “Plagues, incident to men, your potent and infectious fevers heap on Athens.”
- “I am not of that feather to shake off my friend when he must need me.”
- “Make the meat be beloved more than the man that gives it.”