Quoth means `said'. Quoth comes before the subject of the verb. `I blame the selectors,' quoth he. quoth I/he/she etc a way of saying 'I said', 'he said' etc
Said; spoke; uttered; used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object: as, quoth I, quoth he
[ 'kwOth also 'kOth ] (verb past.) before 12th century. Middle English, past of quethen to say, from Old English cwethan; akin to Old High German quedan to say.