The King John Quotes Quiz asks you to match the play’s most famous lines with the correct speaker in no time. Don’t tell me you can’t tell the difference between the Bastard’s cynical wit and King Philip’s royal decrees.” Try your ear on some Shakespearean verse now.
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King John Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!”
- “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.”
- “Grief fills the room up of my absent child.”
- “There is no sure foundation set on blood.”
- “Commodity, the bias of the world.”
- “I am not mad; this hair I tear is mine.”
- “Heat me these irons hot.”
- “A thousand businesses are brief in hand, and heaven itself doth frown upon the land.”
- “O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty.”
- “Thou art a strange fellow: a lordly beggar.”
- “This England never did, nor never shall, lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”
- “By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings.”
- “Here’s a good world! Knew you of this fair work?”
- “O, lawful let it be that I have room with Rome to curse awhile!”
- “Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace.”
- “There’s law and warrant, lady, for my curse.”
- “Sirrah, your brother is legitimate; your father’s wife did after wedlock bear him.”
- “Now by my life, this day grows wondrous hot.”
- “Your strong possession much more than your right.”
- “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.”
- “O fair affliction, peace!”
- “It ill beseems this presence to cry aim to these ill-tuned repetitions.”
- “The devil tempts thee here in likeness of a new untrimmed youth.”
- “The iron of itself, though heat red-hot, approaching near these eyes would drink my tears.”
- “Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.”
- “Have I not hideous death within my view, retaining but a quantity of life?”
- “When I am king, I will be as true a king as ever reigned.”
- “Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.”
- “England now is left to tug and scamble and to part by th’ teeth the unowed interest of proud-swelling state.”