William Shakespeare, As You Like It
16 quotes
"All the world's a stage."
"Under the greenwood tree,Who loves to lie with meAnd tune his merry note,Unto the sweet bird's throat;Come hither, come hither, come hither.Here shall he seeNo enemyBut winter and rough weather."
"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
"Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty."
"...what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear."
"Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:Then, heigh-ho, the holly!This life is most jolly."
"I'll have no husband, if you be not he."
"Say a day without the ever."
"[Act 5, Scene 4, ROSALIND] If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell."
"You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives and conned them out of rings?"
"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."
"O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,"
"O, that's a brave man! He writes brave versrs, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely,"
"Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
"Sweet are the uses of adversity."
"Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life, exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in every thing."