Quotes from Titus Andronicus

15 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1592

I have done a thousand dreadful things as willingly as one would kill a fly.

Aaron, Titus Andronicus
  1. Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would kill a fly, And nothing grieves me heartily indeed But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

    Aaron, Act V scene i
  2. Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers? Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey But me and mine.

    Titus, Act III scene i
  3. If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

    Aaron, Titus Andronicus
  4. She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; she is a woman, therefore may be won.

    William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
  5. She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd; She is a woman, therefore may be won; She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.

    Demetrius, Act II scene i
  6. Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them then in being merciful: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

    Tamora, Act I scene i
  7. Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

    Aaron, Act II scene iii
  8. Coal-black is better than another hue, In that it scorns to bear another hue.

    Aaron, Act IV scene ii
  9. For now I stand as one upon a rock Environ'd with a wilderness of sea.

    Titus, Act III scene i
  10. I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family.

    Tamora, Act I scene i
  11. I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!

    Titus, Act III scene i
  12. What, man! more water glideth by the mill Than wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive.

    Demetrius, Act II scene i
  13. These words are razors to my wounded heart.

    Titus, Act I scene i
  14. In peace and honour rest you here, my sons.

    Titus, Act I scene i