Quoth is no longer used in everyday conversation, but can be found in historical texts.

Archaic Usage

Using 'quoth' adds an old-fashioned or poetic touch to writing or storytelling.

Literary Flavor

'Quoth' introduces a quoted sentence and is often followed by the person or character who spoke.

Direct Quotations

 some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them", quoth William Shakespeare. Or did he? Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name, or whether he even existed at all. They speculate that Shakespeare was a pseudonym for another writer,