Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Pericles, Prince of Tyre.
Family Quotes
This king unto him
took a peer,
Who died and left a female heir,
[...]
With whom the father liking took,
And her to incest did provoke:
Bad child; worse father, to entice his own
To evil should be...
Mortality Quotes
To sing a song that old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come;
Assuming man's infirmities, (1.Prologue.1-3)
Power Quotes
Made many princes
thither frame,
To seek her as a bed-fellow,
In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:
Which to prevent he made a law,
To keep her still, and men in awe,
That whoso ask'd her for his wife...
Sex Quotes
With whom the father liking
took,
And her to incest did provoke:
Bad child; worse father! to entice his own
To evil should be done by none: (1.Prologue.25-28)
Deception Quotes
Which to prevent he made a law,
To keep her still, and men in awe,
That whoso ask'd her for his wife,
His riddle told not, lost his life[...] (1.Prologue.35-38)
Fate and Free Will Quotes
You gods that made me man,
and sway in love,
That have inflam'd desire in my breast
To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,
Or die in the adventure, be my helps,
As I am son and servant to your w...
Art and Culture Quotes
To sing a song that
old was sung,
From ashes ancient Gower is come[...] (1.Prologue.1-2)