Most readers cannot tell the riddling verse of a tyrant from the lyrical laments of a shipwrecked prince. Put your skills to the test in identifying the most haunting lines of the play to their rightful speakers with this THYME Pericles Prince Of Tyre Quotes Quiz. Do you recognise the threat of the villain and the hope of the hero?
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Pericles Prince Of Tyre Quotes Quiz Questions
- “To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come.”
- “You seek the heights of honor to climb; It is dangerous to press against a king’s secret.”
- “Heaven make a star of him! Yet there, my queen, we’ll rest.”
- “This king were great, if at his death he would make new nations.”
- “The king’s daughter with herself is joy’d; her answer is to wed the stranger knight.”
- “Who builds his hope in air of your good looks lives like a drunken sailor on a mast.”
- “O Helicanus, strike me, honor’d sir; give me the sword of justice.”
- “The sea hath cast me on the shores of men; Whose tongues are music to me.”
- “Who seeks her life, seeks Thaisa’s death.”
- “O you gods! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts and snatch them straight away?”
- “The blind mole casts copp’d hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng’d by man.”
- “Patience, good sir, even for this charge.”
- “The king my father’s wrack’d and lost at sea.”
- “Famine begins to look like men.”
- “Though I am dead, yet let me not be laid within this chest.”
- “This world to me is but a ceaseless storm.”
- “The jewel of our house, the blessed and virtuous Thaisa, is revived.”
- “Yet for your royal interest I’ll endure.”
- “Fair goddess of the silver bow, Diana.”
- “I am no viper, yet I feed on mother’s flesh.”
- “O you gods! Why do you make us to love your goodly gifts?”
- “You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings.”
- “Be of good cheer, for you shall find a friend.”
- “If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.”
- “My fortunes—parentage—good parentage—To equal mine were impossible.”
- “I am a maid, my lord, that ne’er before invited eyes, but have been gazed on like a comet.”
- “He’s gentle in conditions but a lion in war.”
- “Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short.”
- “She never spake more kindly than to-day.”
- “This, the sea’s treasure: in our sight it sunk, yet it appears again.”