Timon Of Athens Quote Identification Quiz

“O the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!”

“Lord Timon, I would it were not so!”

“Let not that part of nature which my lord paid for be of any power to expel sickness.”

“The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the extremity of both ends.”

“Who seeks those vessels which none else will use?”

“I am not of that feather to shake off my friend when he must need me.”

“I gave it freely ever; and there’s none can truly say he gives, if he receives.”

“Promising is the very air o’ the time.”

“Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall that girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth.”

“Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?”

“You shall see me once more at the fall of your great fortunes.”

“I’ll nothing give thee, then, nor will I receive.”

“The swallow follows not summer more willingly than we your lordship.”

“Make the meat be beloved more than the man that gives it.”

“The moon’s an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun.”

“I am wealthy in my friends.”

“O you gods, why this? What this, you gods?”

“What need we have any friends, if we should ne’er have need of them?”

“The sea’s a thief, whose liquid surge resolves the moon into salt tears.”

“I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.”

“I’ll meet you at the turn. What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.”

“Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft.”

“Men shut their doors against a setting sun.”

“O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth rotten humidity.”

“What do you think the hour?”

“Plagues, incident to men, your potent and infectious fevers heap on Athens.”

“I bleed inwardly for my lord.”

“This yellow slave will knit and break religions.”

“There’s none can truly say he gives, if he receives.”

“I am sick of this false world, and will love nought but even the mere necessities upon’t.”