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The Comedy of Errors quotes
12 quotes from The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #1504 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
BALTHASAR Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
— Balthasar · Act III, Scene I — The same
Nay, then, thus: We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
— Dromio Of Ephesus · Act V, Scene I — The same
Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say, every why hath a wherefore.
— Dromio Of Syracuse · Act II, Scene II — The same
Along with them They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller; A needy, hollow-ey’d, sharp-looking wretch; A living dead man.
— Antipholus Of Ephesus · Act V, Scene I — The same
Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
— Dromio Of Syracuse · Act IV, Scene III — The same
With her I liv’d in joy; our wealth increas’d By prosperous voyages I often made To Epidamnum, till my factor’s death, And the great care of goods at random left, Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse; From whom my absence was not six months old Before herself (almost at fainting under The pleasing punishment that women bear) Had made provision for her following me, And soon and safe arrived where I was.
— Egeon · Act I, Scene I — A hall in the Duke’s palace
No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip. She is spherical, like a globe. I could find out countries in her.
— Dromio Of Syracuse · Act III, Scene II — The same
No, It is thyself, mine own self’s better part, Mine eye’s clear eye, my dear heart’s dearer heart, My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope’s aim, My sole earth’s heaven, and my heaven’s claim.
— Antipholus Of Syracuse · Act III, Scene II — The same
Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he’s worth to season. Nay, he’s a thief too. Have you not heard men say That time comes stealing on by night and day?
— Dromio Of Syracuse · Act IV, Scene II — The same
If everyone knows us, and we know none, ’Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.
— Antipholus Of Syracuse · Act III, Scene II — The same
That you beat me at the mart I have your hand to show; If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
— Dromio Of Ephesus · Act III, Scene I — The same
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
— Luciana · Act II, Scene I — A public place