Quotes from Pericles

11 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1607

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

Simonides, Act II, Scene ii

  1. Whereby I see that Time's the king of men, He's both their parent, and he is their grave, And gives them what he will, not what they crave.

    Pericles, Act II, Scene iii

  2. Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

    Pericles, Pericles

  3. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful.

    First Fisherman, Act II, Scene i

  4. To sing a song that old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come; Assuming man's infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes.

    Gower, opening chorus, Act I

  5. O, come hither, Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget; Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus, And found at sea again!

    Pericles to Marina, Act V, Scene i

  6. The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.

    Pericles, Act V, Scene i

  7. If you were born to honour, show it now.

    Marina, Pericles

  8. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

    Pericles, Act I, Scene i

  9. For death remember'd should be like a mirror, Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.

    Pericles, Act I, Scene i

  10. I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly.

    Marina, Act IV, Scene i