The Winter's Tale

By

William Shakespeare

QUOTATION: It is required
You do awake your faith.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British poet. The Winter’s Tale (V, iii).

QUOTATION: Hermione. Pray you sit by us,
And tell’s a tale.
Mamillius. Merry or sad shall’t be?
Hermione. As merry as you will.
Mamillius. A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one
Of sprites and goblins.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Hermione and Mamillius, in The Winter’s Tale, act 2, sc. 1, l. 22-6.

QUOTATION: Calumny will sear
Virtue itself.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Leontes, in The Winter’s Tale, act 2, sc. 1, l. 73-4.

QUOTATION: Exit, pursued by a bear.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Stage direction, in The Winter’s Tale, act 3, sc. 3, l. 57 (1623).

QUOTATION: Welcome hither,
As is the spring to th’ earth.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Leontes, in The Winter’s Tale, act 5, sc. 1, l. 151-2.

QUOTATION: What’s gone and what’s past help
Should be past grief.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Paulina, in The Winter’s Tale, act 3, sc. 2, l. 222-3.

QUOTATION: I like your silence, it the more shows off
Your wonder.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Paulina, in The Winter’s Tale, act 5, sc. 3, l. 21-2.

QUOTATION: I never saw
The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamor!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Antigonus, in The Winter’s Tale, act 3, sc. 3, l. 55-6.

QUOTATION: I am a feather for each wind that blows.
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Leontes, in The Winter’s Tale, act 2, sc. 3, l. 154.

QUOTATION: O, the thorns we stand upon!
ATTRIBUTION: William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Florizel, in The Winter’s Tale, act 4, sc. 4, l. 585.

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