LIT-2300 Intro to Literature - Exam 2 Quotes

Drama

Quote: “I know what stillness is.”

Mrs. Peters, Trifles

Quote: “ I wish you’d seen Minnie Foster when she wore a white dress with blue ribbons and stood up there in the choir and sang…Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?”

Mrs. Hale, Trifles

Quote: “Forgive me, dear. I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t cry.”

Linda, Death of a Salesman

Quote: “I think hell’s a fable.”

Faustus, Doctor Faustus

Quote: “What will not I do to obtain his soul!”

Mephistophilis, Doctor Faustus

Quote: “All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”

Amanda, The Glass Managerie

Quote: “Yes I know — the tyranny of women!”

Amanda, The Glass Managerie

Quote: “Somebody needs to build your confidence up and make you proud instead of shy and turning away and — blushing — somebody ought to — ought to — kiss you”

Jim, The Glass Menagerie

Quote: “I go to the movies because — I like adventure.”

Tom, The Glass Menagerie

Quote: “You’ll never forgive me. I bet that was your favorite piece of glass.”

Jim, The Glass Menagerie

Quote: “Its okay, now he’s like all the other horses.”

Laura, The Glass Menagerie

Quote: “Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build fences to keep people in.”

Bono, Fences

Quote: “I tool all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams, and buried them inside you.”

Rose, Fences

Quote: “Sometimes when he touched, he bruised. And sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut.”

Rose, Fences

Quote: “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, or to the dreadful summit of the cliff…”

Horatio, Hamlet

Quote: “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, though canst not then be false to any man.”

Polonius, Hamlet

Quote: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

Marcellius, Hamlet

Quote: “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.”

Ghost, Hamlet

Quote: “Rest, rest, perturbed spirit! … O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!”

Hamlet

Quote: “As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on…”

Hamlet

Quote: “By indirections find directions out”

Polonius, Hamlet

Quote: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

Polonius, Hamlet

Quote: “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.”

Hamlet

Quote: “Thus conscience does make cowards of us all”

Hamlet

Quote: “It shall be so, madness in great ones must not unwatched go.”

King, Hamlet

Quote: “O, my offense is rank! It smells to heaven.”

King, Hamlet

Quote: “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.”

King, Hamlet

Quote: “…That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”

Hamlet

Quote: “O, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!”

Hamlet

Quote: “To cut his throat i’ the church.”

Laertes, Hamlet

Quote: “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

Horatio, Hamlet