Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Alchemist.
Transformation Quotes
TRI. Ay; but stay,This act of coining, is it lawful?ANA. Lawful!We know no magistrate: or, if we did,This is foreign coin.SUB. It is no coining, sir.It is but casting.TRI. Ha! you distinguish we...
Religion Quotes
TRI. Ay; but stay,This act of coining, is it lawful?ANA. Lawful!We know no magistrate: or, if we did,This is foreign coin.SUB. It is no coining, sir.It is but casting.TRI. Ha! you distinguish we...
Art and Culture Quotes
"Infuse vinegar,To draw his volatile substance and his tincture:And let the water in glass E be filt'red,And put into the gripe's egg. Lute him well;And leave him clos'd in balneo." (2.2.49-53)