Quotes from Cymbeline

14 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1610

Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Guiderius, the funeral dirge for Fidele, Act IV, scene 2

  1. Fear no more the heat o' the sun, nor the furious winter's rages.

    Guiderius and Arviragus, Cymbeline

  2. Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

    Cymbeline

  3. Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies.

    Aubade sung at Imogen's window, Act II, scene 3

  4. Quiet consummation have; And renowned be thy grave!

    Closing couplet of the dirge, Act IV, scene 2

  5. 'Tis slander, whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

    Pisanio, Act III, scene 4

  6. Boldness be my friend! Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!

    Iachimo, Act I, scene 6

  7. I have not slept one wink.

    Pisanio, Cymbeline

  8. Some falls are means the happier to arise.

    Belarius, Act IV, scene 2

  9. Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

    Pisanio, Act IV, scene 3

  10. Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night, Are they not but in Britain?

    Imogen, Act III, scene 4

  11. O, for a horse with wings!

    Imogen, Act III, scene 2

  12. Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them, For it doth physic love.

    Imogen, Act III, scene 2

  13. The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense Repairs itself by rest.

    Iachimo, in Imogen's bedchamber, Act II, scene 2