You may think you can judge the wisdom of Ulysses by the curses of Thersites, but this Troilus And Cressida Quotes Quiz will test your mettle. Many lines are strikingly similar in their cynicism and in their emphasis on the ravages of time. Train your literary ear to recognise the speakers of each passage of Shakespearean verse.
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Troilus And Cressida Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark what discord follows.”
- “Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery; nothing else holds fashion.”
- “The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel beef-witted lord!”
- “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
- “O madness of discourse, that cause sets up with and against itself!”
- “The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!”
- “This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined.”
- “Sweet honey and sugar cannot confound thee, Cressid.”
- “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.”
- “I cannot fight upon this argument; it is too starved a subject for my sword.”
- “The end crowns all, and that old common arbitrator, Time, will one day end it.”
- “Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.”
- “You are such another!”
- “Let it be known, Achilles is my enemy.”
- “I do hate a proud man as I hate the engendering of toads.”
- “Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back.”
- “Let’s leave the hermit pity with our mother.”
- “A woman of quick sense, but keen for folly.”
- “Peace, fool! I have not done.”
- “Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow?”
- “She’s a merry Greek indeed.”
- “I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.”
- “If I should tell what I know of them, I should never be believed.”
- “O traitress Cressid! False Cressid! False, false, false!”
- “This same young Trojan fool that loves the wench.”
- “Let the blood weeps for woe, and not for shame.”
- “I’ll beat thee into handsomeness.”
- “Would I could meet that rogue Diomed!”
- “Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think.”
- “Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven.”