# All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is often considered one of his problem plays, not easily classifiable as a comedy or tragedy. It was probably written in the later middle part of Shakespeare's career, between 1601 and 1608.

## Act I

* Be thou blest, Bertram; and succeed thy father In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue Contend for empire in thee; and thy goodness Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life’s key: be check’d for silence, But never tax’d for speech. What heaven more will That thee may furnish, and my prayers pluck down, Fall on thy head!
** Countess Of Rousillon, Act I, Scene i
* 'T were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it.
** Helena, scene i
* The hind, that would be mated by the lion, Must die for love.
** Helena, scene i
* Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
** Helena, scene i
* His good remembrance, sir, Lies richer in your thoughts, than on his tomb; So in approof lives not his epitaph, As in your royal speech.
** Bertram, scene ii
* Service is no heritage.
** Clown, scene iii
* He must needs go, that the devil drives.
** Clown, scene iii
* Even so it was with me, when I was young: If we are nature’s, these are ours; this thorn Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong: Our blood to us, this to our blood is born; It is the show and seal of nature’s truth, Where love’s strong passion is impress’d in youth: By our remembrances of days foregone, Such were our faults; — or then we thought them none. Her eye is sick on’t: I observe her now.
** Countess of Rousillon, scene iii
* My friends were poor, but honest.
** Helena, scene iii

## Act II

* Great floods have flown From simple sources; and great seas have dried, When miracles have by the greatest been denied. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises.
** Helena, scene i
* I will show myself highly fed, and lowly taught.
** Clown, scene ii
* They say, miracles are past.
** Lafeu, scene iii
* All the learned and authentic fellows.
** Lafeu, scene iii
* From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, The place is dignified by the doer’s deed.
** King of France, scene iii
* A young man, married, is a man that ’s marr’d.
** Parolles, scene iii
* Make the coming hour o’erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.
** Parolles, scene iv

## Act III

* No legacy is so rich as honesty.
** Mariana, scene v

## Act IV

* The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
** 1st Lord, scene iii
* Simply the thing I am Shall make me live.
** Parolles, scene iii
* All's well that ends well still: the fine's the crown; Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.
** Helena, scene iv

## Act V

* Whose words all ears took captive.
** Lafeu, scene iii
* Praising what is lost, Makes the remembrance dear.
** King of France, scene iii
* For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals, ere we can effect them.
** King of France, scene iii
* All impediments in fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy.
** Bertram, scene iii
* 'T is but the shadow of a wife you see, The name and not the thing.
** Helena, scene iii
* The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
** King of France, scene iii