Mean Shakespeare Quotes

Tag: Pericles

  • January 27

    January 27

    Romantic Collusion

    When my love swears that she is made of truth
    I do believe her, though I know she lies…

    Therefore I lie with her and she with me,
     And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be.

    –Sonnet CXXXVIII (138)

  • January 24

    January 24

    Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

    Is he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,
    For he’s disposed as the hateful raven:
    Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,
    For he’s inclined as is the ravenous wolf.
    Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?

    –Henry VI Part 2,
    Act III, Scene i

  • January 23

    January 23

    Cover Girl

    How courtesy would seem to cover sin,
    When what is done is like an hypocrite,
    The which is good in nothing but in sight!

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene i

  • December 14

    Suspect Fawning

    For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;
    The thing which is flatter’d, but a spark,
    To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;

    … He flatters you, makes war upon your life.

    –Pericles,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • November 17

    November 17

    Smoke to Fire

    One sin, I know, another doth provoke;
    Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke.

    –Pericles,
    Act I Scene i

  • October 19

    Greed

    The great ones eat up the
    little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
    nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and
    tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
    last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales
    have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping
    till they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church,
    steeple, bells, and all.

    ––Pericles,
    Act II, Scene 1

  • September 1

    September 1

    Close the Book

    Few love to hear the sins they love to act…
    Who has a book of all that monarchs do,
    He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown.

    -Pericles,
    Act I, Scene i