“but it is a melancholy of my own” p. 166 Act 4 scene 1 | Jaques |
“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not because of love” p. 175 Act 4 scene 1 | Rosalind |
“No,no, Orlando, men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” p. 178 Act 4 scene 1 | Rosalind |
“You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate” p. 182 Act 4 scene 1 | Celia; threw all women under the bus |
“Do you pity him? No, he deserves no pity. – Wilt thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an instrument and play false strains upon three? Not to be endured.” p. 192 Act 4 Scene 3 | Rosalind |
“Orlando doth commend him to you both, and to that youth he calls his Rosalind he sends this bloody napkin, are you he?” p. 194 Act 4 scene 3 | Oliver |
“Some of my shame, if you will know of me What man I am, and how, and why, and where this handkercher was stained” p. 194 act 4 scene 3 | Oliver |
“I do now remember a saying: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool” p. 206 act 5 scene 1 | Touchstone |
“Then learn this of me: to have is to have” p. 208 act 5 scene 1 | Touchstone |
“Is’t possible that on so little acquaintance you should like her? That, but seeing, you should love her?” p. 210 act 5 scene 2 | Orlando |
“Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden wooding, nor her sudden consenting, but say with me “I love Aliena”” p. 210 act 5 scene 2 | Oliver |
“For your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage. They are in the very wrath of love, and they will together. Clubs cannot part them.” p. 212 act 5 scene 2 | Rosalind |
“Doust thou believe, Orlando, that the boy can do all this he hath promised?” p. 224 act 5 scene 4 | Duke Senior |
“I sometimes do believe sometimes do not, As those that fear they hope, and know they fear” p. 224 act 5 scene 4 | orlando |
“Our argument went through seven stages – watch your posture, Audrey-…” p. 231 act 5 scene 4 | touchstone |
“O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees: the first… Your “if” is the only peacemaker: much virtue in ‘if'” p. 232 act 5 scene 4 | touchstone |
“You don’t usually see a woman deliver an epilogue, but it’s no worse than seeing a man deliver the prologue” p. 243 epilogue | rosalind |
As You Like It Act 4 and 5 Quotes
July 15, 2019