23 Inspiring Quotes from As You Like It (by William Shakespeare)

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As You Like It Quotes

All the world’s a stage.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


O, that’s a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


I’ll have no husband, if you be not he.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Say a day without the ever.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Sweet are the uses of adversity.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


O, that’s a brave man! He writes brave versrs, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


…what care I for words? Yet words do wellWhen he that speaks them pleases those that hear.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


[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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Sweet are the uses of adversityWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish’d and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths’ wives and conned them out of rings?

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It


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.

— William Shakespeare, As You Like It