Quotes from All's Well That Ends Well

13 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1604

All's well that ends well. Still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.

Helena, Act IV, Scene iv

  1. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

    Countess, All's Well That Ends Well

  2. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

    First Lord, All's Well That Ends Well

  3. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven.

    Helena, Act I, Scene i

  4. Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

    Parolles, All's Well That Ends Well

  5. No legacy is so rich as honesty.

    Mariana, Act III, Scene v

  6. Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

    King of France, Act V, Scene iii

  7. A young man married is a man that's marred.

    Parolles, Act II, Scene iii

  8. Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.

    Lafew, Act I, Scene i

  9. From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer's deed.

    King of France, Act II, Scene iii

  10. The hind that would be mated by the lion Must die for love.

    Helena, Act I, Scene i

  11. Great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

    Helena, persuading the King, Act II, Scene i

  12. For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.

    King of France, Act V, Scene iii