The Winters Tale Quote Identification Quiz

“There’s some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect more favorable.”

“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”

“Thou met’st with things dying, I with things newborn.”

“O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause to be suspected of more tenderness than doth become a man.”

“Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? Is meeting noses?”

“Go thy ways, we’ll talk anon.”

“Every wink of an eye some new grace will be born.”

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.”

“This jealousy is for a precious creature.”

“This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.”

“For behold me, a fellow of the royal bed, which owe a moiety of the throne.”

“Let winter come; it only brings decay.”

“Come, poor babe: I have heard, but not believed, the spirits o’ the dead may walk again.”

“Too hot, too hot! To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.”

“If one by one you wedded all the world, or from the all that are took something good, to make a perfect woman, she you kill’d would be unparallel’d.”

“It is required you do awake your faith.”

“Exit, pursued by a bear.”

“Your honor and your goodness is so evident, that your free undertaking cannot miss a thriving issue.”

“Good Paulina, who hast the memory of Hermione, I know, in honor.”

“Now bless thyself: thou met’st with things dying, I with things newborn.”

“Thou dost approve thyself the very same thy mother was; she hath one voice, one eye, one hand, and one heart.”

“Nothing she does or seems but smacks of something greater than herself.”

“I have drunk, and seen the spider.”

“O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it be an art lawful as eating.”

“There may be in the cup a spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, and yet partake no venom.”

“I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances, but not for joy.”

“Though they would not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.”

“Thy mother plays, and I play too, but so disgraced a part.”

“Grace to boot! Of this make no conclusion, lest you say your queen and I are devils.”

“I am a feather for each wind that blows.”