‘he keeps me rustically at home’ | Orlando to Adam |
‘I am the youngest son of Sir Roland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villeins.’ | Orlando to Oliver |
‘God be with my old master: he would not have spoke such a word.’ | Adam to Oliver |
‘they live like the old Robin Hood of England…and fleet the time carelessly as they did in the golden world.’ | Charles to Oliver |
‘the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver’ | Oliver, to Charles, on Orlando |
‘he’s gentle, never schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of all sorts enchantingly beloved’ | Oliver in soliloquy, on Orlando |
‘are you crept hither to see the wrestling?’ | Duke Frederick to Celia and Rosalind |
‘if I be foiled, there is but one shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one dead that is willing to be so.’ | Orlando to Celia and Rosalind |
‘I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.’ | Orlando to Celia and Rosalind |
‘I would thou hadst been son to some man else; The world esteemed thy father honourable But I did find him still mine enemy.’ | Duke Frederick to Orlando |
‘My father loved Sir Roland as his soul And all the world was of my father’s mind.’ | Rosalind to Orlando |
‘one out of suits with Fortune, That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.’ | Rosalind to Orlando |
‘My better parts Are all thrown down’ | Orlando in soliloquy |
‘My pride fell with my fortunes’ | Rosalind in soliloquy |
‘Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown More than your enemies.’ | Rosalind to Orlando |
‘Thus must I from the smoke into the smother, From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother. But heavenly Rosalind’ | Orlando in soliloquy |
‘O how full of briars is this working-day world!’ | Rosalind to Celia |
‘Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste And get you from our court.’ | Duke Frederick to Rosalind |
‘Thus do all traitors: If their purgation did consist in words, They are as innocent as grace itself.’ | Duke Frederick to Rosalind |
‘Thou art thy father’s daughter, there’s enough.’ | Duke Frederick to Rosalind |
‘We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe’er we went, like Juno’s swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.’ | Celia to Duke Frederick |
‘Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous When she is gone.’ | Duke Frederick to Celia |
‘Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege, I cannot live out of her company.’ | Celia to Duke Frederick |
‘If you outstay the time, upon mine honour And in the greatness of my word, you die.’ | Duke Frederick to Celia and Rosalind |
‘I’ll put myself in poor and mean attire And with a kind of umber smirch my face; The like do you.’ | Celia to Rosalind |
‘Now go in we content, To liberty, and not to banishment.’ | Celia to Rosalind |
As You Like It – Act 1 Quotes
July 14, 2019