Quotes from work

As You Like It

“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”

“All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”

“Love is merely a madness.”

“Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.”

“It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.”

“Your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.”

“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:
This wide and universal theatre
Presents more woeful pageants than the scene
Wherein we play in.”

“My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal.”

“I'll have no husband, if you be not he.”

“Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.”

“O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.”

“Master, go on, and I will follow thee
To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.”

“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”

“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed…”

“JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name?

ORLANDO: Yes, just.

JAQUES: I do not like her name.

ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.”

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”