as you like it quotes

fortune vs nature

• “to some…their graces serve them but as enemies”

• “nature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune”

• “happy is your grace that can translate the stubborness of Fortune”

• “and nature, stronger than his just occassion”

love

• “it is to be made of all sighs and tears”

• “I found him under a tree like a dropped acorn”

• “men are April when they woo, December when they wed”

• “The wiser, the waywrder”

• “thou lov’st me not with the full weight that I love thee”

• “I’ll go find a shadow and sigh till he come”

• “there was a pretty redness in his lip”

appearance

• beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold

• I am not furnished like a begger, therefore to beg will not become me

gender

• doublet and hose

• petticoat

• if I were a woman

• when I make curtsey, bid me farewell

flexibility/ as you like it

• to like as much of this play as please you

• when I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content

experimentation

• I would cure you if you would but call me Rosalind

magic

• I can do strange things

• since I was three years old, conversed with a magician

ecocriticism

• we are mere usperers, tyrants…to kill [animals]…in their…native dwelling place"

loyalty

• the constant service of the antique world

virtue

• “kindness, nobler ever than revenge, made him give battle to the lioness”

• “a green and gilded snake had wreathed itself” around Oliver but “seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself”

• Fred will kick Rosalind out for “no other argument but that the people praise her for her virtues”

country vs court

• touchstone refers to himself as Corin’s “betters”

• “i…do not shear the fleeces that I graze”

• “seeking the bubble reputation”

mortality/carpe diem

• “all the world’s a stage, [a]nd all the men and women merely players”

• “a world too wide for his shrunk shrank”

• “therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly”

time

• “you shall be married tomorrow”

• I come within an hour of my promise”