You Like It Quotes

• All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

  Dr. Seuss

  Depressing, Being Alone, All Alone

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• Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

  William Shakespeare

  Virtue, Negotiation, Peacemaker

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, l. [108]

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• O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

  William Shakespeare

  World

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. [12]

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• 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

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Beard, Complexion

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.209

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• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughter, Laughing, Horns

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

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• He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Work, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [25]

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• If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Play, Acting

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 5, sc. 4, epilogue l. [3]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Eggs, Sides

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.139, Classic Books Company

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Noses, Innocence

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

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• It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Atoms, Ease

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [246]

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• The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Wit, Dullness

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.163, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lying, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. 1

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• If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Love You, Thee

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 4, l. [34]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Women, Thinking

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [265]

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• I am falser than vows made in wine.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Vineyards, Drink

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 5, l. [72]

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Winter, Age

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• One man in his time plays many parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Character, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

  Euripides

  Love, Men, Heaven

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Time, Player

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

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• The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspiring, Education, Procrastination

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• Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Dream

  Hero and Leander First Sestiad, l. 175 (1598)

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• Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Men

  William Shakespeare (1998). “As You Like It”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Unhappy, Theatre

  Cross, William Shakespeare (1989). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.622, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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