Quotes from The Comedy of Errors

10 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1594

We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.

Dromio of Ephesus, Act V, scene i

  1. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself.

    Antipholus of Syracuse, Act I, scene ii

  2. Every why hath a wherefore.

    Dromio of Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors

  3. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell? Sleeping or waking, mad or well-advised?

    Antipholus of Syracuse, The Comedy of Errors

  4. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

    Balthazar, Act III, scene i

  5. Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.

    Dromio of Syracuse, Act IV, scene iii

  6. The pleasing punishment that women bear.

    Egeon, Act I, scene i

  7. A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

    Adriana, Act II, scene i

  8. Time himself is bald and therefore to the world's end will have bald followers.

    Dromio of Syracuse, Act II, scene ii

  9. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

    Adriana, Act IV, scene ii