Quotes from King John
12 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1596
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
This England never did, nor never shall, / Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
The Bastard Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form.
Constance, mourning her son Arthur, Act III, Scene 4 Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition!
The Bastard This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself.
The Bastard (Philip the Faulconbridge), closing speech, Act V, Scene 7 Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
Lewis the Dauphin, Act III, Scene 4 Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, / When gold and silver becks me to come on.
The Bastard Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.
The Bastard, Act III, Scene 3 Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Constance, Act III, Scene 1 And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Pembroke, Act IV, Scene 2 For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
The Bastard, on being newly knighted, Act I, Scene 1 For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation.
The Bastard, Act I, Scene 1