Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from All's Well That Ends Well.
Gender Quotes
HELENMan is enemy to virginity. How may we barricado it against him? (1.1.117-118)
Sex Quotes
COUNTESSI have those hopes of her good that her education promises. Her dispositions sheinherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, ther...
Society and Class Quotes
HELEN'Twere all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd think to wed it, he is so above me.In his bright radiance and collateral lightMust I be comforted, not in his sphere. (1.1.90-94)
Marriage Quotes
COUNTESSTell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.FOOLMy poor body, madam, requires it. I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. (1.3.28-31)
Death Quotes
COUNTESSIn delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. (1.1.1-2)
Family Quotes
BERTRAMAnd I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; but I must attend his Majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. (1.1.3-6)
Old Age and Youth Quotes
BERTRAM...but I must attend his Majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection. (1.1.4-6)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
HELENWho comes here? Enter ParollesOne that goes with him. I love him for his sake,And yet I know him...