That sounds like a garbled version of something King Lear says in Act V, Scene 3 :
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon.
Except in Act III, Scene 1 where the Earl of Kent says:
There is division
(Although as yet the face of it be cover'd
With mutual cunning) 'twixt Albany and Cornwall; 1640
Who have (as who have not, that their great stars
Thron'd and set high?) servants, who seem no less,
Which are to France the spies and speculations
Intelligent of our state
- there are no other mentions of spies in The Scottish Play
The quote comes from the William Shakespeare play "King Henry V." For more information on some famous Shakespeare quotes, see the Related Link.
The Winter of Our Discontent is a John Steinbeck book named after a quote from Richard III. Fortune's Fool is a play by Ivan Turgenov, named for a quote from Romeo and Juliet. Siobhan Robert's biography of Donald Coxeter is called The King of Infinite Space, from Hamlet. A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a reference to a quote from The Tempest. An Improbable Fiction is an Alan Ayckburn play named after a quote from Twelth Night. Every Inch A King is by Harry Turtledove and is named from a quote from King Lear. Flaming Youth is by Warner Fabian and is named for a quote from Hamlet. There is also a film of the same name. Her Infinite Variety is a novel by Louis Auchincloss, after a quote from Anthony And Cleopatra. Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth by Simon Green is from a quote in King Lear. From Out The Vasty Deep by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes is from a quote from Henry IV. In fact, just found this http://www.barbarapaul.com/shake.html
He's the king. A subject should obey his king.
What need for a quote? The Fool, alone among all of Lear's followers, sticks with him as he heads into the storm. That action speaks louder than any words.
They were sent for specifically to spy on Hamlet and report to the king and queen. Spies generally do not like the people they are spying on to know it. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would have an easier time getting unguarded admissions from Hamlet if they were not "outed".
The quote may be from Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which King Claudius says, "When sorrows come, they come not single spies / But in battalions." It means that sorrows don't come one by one, like "spies" [advance scouts for an army], but all at once, battalions of an army.
The spies were Hamlet's best friends Rosencrantz & Guildenstern (R&G)
The king's Eyes and Ears
Scarecrow and Mrs- King - 1983 Ship of Spies 2-12 was released on: USA: 7 January 1985
These would be Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who are actually spies for the king.
Scarecrow and Mrs- King - 1983 Three Little Spies 3-21 was released on: USA: 7 April 1986
whats the quote that goes with catching the sword
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am the government."
I have a dream
When the Red King Comes was created in 1997.
The most, off-topic quote from the decsrition of the episode.