Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Winter’s Tale

  • January 16

    Accidental Virtues

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

    -Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iii

  • Blasts of January

    Blasts of January

    Out, alas!
    You’d be so lean, that blasts of January
    Would blow you through and through.

    -Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iv

  • December 15

    Charisma

    Women will love her, that she is a woman
    More worth than any man; men, that she is
    The rarest of all women.

    — The Winter’s Tale,
    Act V, Scene i

  • Arch Observation

    Arch Observation

    Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,
    Become some women best, so that there be not
    Too much hair there, but in a semicircle
    Or a half-moon made with a pen.

    –Winter’s Tale, 
    Act II, Scene i

  • September 28

    Stay Inside Simplicity

    What we changed
    Was innocence for innocence. We knew not
    The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed
    That any did.

    —The Winter’s Tale,
    Act I, Scene ii

  • Bed Hopper

    Bed-Hopper

    She’s a bed-swerver, even as bad as those
    That vulgars give bold’st titles.

    -A Winter’s Tale,
    Act II, Scene i

  • Accidental Virtues

    Accidental Virtues

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

    -The Winter’s Tale,
    Act IV, Scene iii