Quotes from The Two Noble Kinsmen

15 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1613

This world's a city full of straying streets, / And death's the market-place where each one meets.

Third Queen, Act 1 Scene 5

  1. This world's a city full of straying streets, and death's the market-place where each one meets.

    The Two Noble Kinsmen

  2. Roses, their sharp spines being gone, / Not royal in their smells alone, / But in their hue;

    The Boy's wedding song, Act 1 Scene 1

  3. New plays and maidenheads are near akin: / Much followed both, for both much money giv'n, / If they stand sound and well.

    Prologue, opening lines

  4. O you heavenly charmers, / What things you make of us! For what we lack / We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still / Are children in some kind.

    Theseus, closing speech, Act 5 Scene 4

  5. O queen Emilia, fresher than May, dearer in love than liberty.

    Palamon, The Two Noble Kinsmen

  6. Once he kissed me; / I loved my lips the better ten days after.

    The Jailer's Daughter, Act 2 Scene 4

  7. 'Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.

    Hippolyta, Act 4 Scene 2

  8. O, great corrector of enormous times, / Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider / Of dusty and old titles, that heal'st with blood / The Earth when it is sick.

    Arcite, prayer to Mars, Act 5 Scene 1

  9. To marry him is hopeless; / To be his whore is witless.

    The Jailer's Daughter, Act 2 Scene 4

  10. I am bride-habited / But maiden-hearted.

    Emilia, prayer to Diana, Act 5 Scene 1

  11. Of all flowers / Methinks a rose is best. ... It is the very emblem of a maid.

    Emilia, Act 2 Scene 2

  12. What a mere child is Fancy, / That, having two fair gauds of equal sweetness, / Cannot distinguish, but must cry for both.

    Emilia, Act 4 Scene 2

  13. Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish / If I think this our prison!

    Arcite, Act 2 Scene 2

  14. A learnèd, and a poet never went / More famous yet 'twixt Po and silver Trent.

    Prologue, on Chaucer