Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Cymbeline, King of Britain.
Love Quotes
POSTHUMUSTo your so infinite loss, so in our triflesI still win of you. For my sake wear this.It is a manacle of love. I'll place itUpon this fairest prisoner. (1.1.141-144)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
IMOGEN
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant Can tickle where she wounds! (1.1.98-99)
Society and Class Quotes
IMOGENO, blessèd, that I might not! I chose an eagleAnd did avoid a puttock.CYMBELINEThou took'st a beggar, wouldst have made my throneA seat for baseness. (1.1.167-170)
Mortality Quotes
POSTHUMUSYou gentle gods, give me but this I have,
And sear up my embracements from a next With bonds of death. (1.1.135-137)
Compassion and Forgiveness Quotes
QUEEN
I will be known your advocate. Marry, yet The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good You leaned unto his sentence with what patience Your wisdom may inform you. (1.1.87-90)
Suffering Quotes
FIRST GENTLEMAN
He had two sons—if this be worth your hearing, Mark it—the eldest of them at three years old, I' th' swathing clothes the other, from their nursery Were stol'n, and to this hour...
Women and Femininity Quotes
IACHIMO
If she went before others I
have seen, as that diamond of yours outlusters many I have beheld, I could not but believe she excelled many. But I have not seen the most precious diamond...
Patriotism Quotes
IMOGEN
My lord, I fear, Has forgot Britain. (1.6.133-134)