‘Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens’ | Jacques |
Now go we in contentTo liberty, and not to banishment. | Celia (1.3.21) |
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. | Amiens (2.7.0) |
‘Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that Iwear; owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness; glad of other…’ | Corin (3.2.11) |
SILVIUSO Corin, that thou knew’st how I do love her!CORINI partly guess; for I have lov’d ere now.SILVIUSNo, Corin, being old thou canst not guess. | Corn and Silvius (2.4.1) |
‘I remember, when I was in love I brokemy sword upon a stone’ | Touchstone (2.4.4) |
‘Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves aswell a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason whythey are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.’ | Rosalind (3.2.44) |
‘I can live no longer by thinking’ | Orlando (act 5) |
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet/ Than that of painted pomp? | Duke Senior |
Are not these woods more free from peril than the envious court? | Duke Senior |
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything | Duke Senior |
The truest poetry is the most feigning | Touchstone (3.2) |
Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this colour | Rosalind (Ganymede) |
As You Like It quotes – Shakespeare
July 25, 2019