Leontes
Winter's Tale
Quotes spoken by the character Leontes
My gracious lord, I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful.
Read the QuoteCamillo
My gracious lord,
I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful.
In every one of these no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Among the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were willful-negligent,
It was my folly; if industriously
I played the fool,
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Either thou art most ignorant by age
Read the QuoteEither thou art most ignorant by age,
Or thou wert born a fool.
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I have said She’s an adult’ress
Read the QuoteLeontes
I have said
She’s an adult’ress; I have said with whom.
More, she’s a traitor, and Camillo is
A federary with her, and one that knows
What she should shame to know herself
But with her most vile principal: that she’s
A bed-swerver, even as bad as those
That vulgars give bold’st titles; ay, and privy
To this their late escape.
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I am a feather for each wind that blows
Read the QuoteI am a feather for each wind that blows.
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Woe the while!
Read the QuotePaulina
Woe the while!
O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,
Break too!
Lord
What fit is this, good lady?
Paulina, to Leontes
What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels, racks, fires? What flaying? Boiling
In leads or oils? What old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst?
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His princess, say you, with him?
Read the QuoteLeontes
His princess, say you, with him?
Servant
Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,
That e’er the sun shone bright on.
Paulina
O Hermione,
As every present time doth boast itself
Above a better gone, so must thy grave
Give way to what’s seen now.
To Servant.
… continue reading this quoteSir, you yourself
Have said and writ so—but your writing now
Is colder than that theme—she had not been
Nor was not to be equalled.