Rosalind Shakespeare Quotes

#1. I was too young that time to value her,
But now I know her. If she be a traitor,
Why, so am I. We still have slept together,
Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together,
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable.

William Shakespeare

#2. ROSALIND: What would you
say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?
ORLANDO: I would kiss before I spoke.

William Shakespeare

#3. Loneliness is a kind of prison.
[Vincent Van Gogh]

Irving Stone

#4. Whatever you do, let it be done with profound love.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Oscar Wilde

#6. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): And your experience makes you sad. I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad
and to travel for it to.

William Shakespeare

#7. ROSALIND: I would we could do so, for her benefits are mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth most mistake in her gifts to women.

William Shakespeare

#8. Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

Bryant McGill

#9. I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life.

Kiki Smith

#10. Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Richard Dawkins

#12. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.

William Shakespeare

#13. 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

#14. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Joyce Cary

#15. Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

Shams Tabrizi

#16. [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

#17. I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

Flip Wilson

#18. ROSALIND (AS GANYMEDE): Men have died from time to time, and words have eaten them, but not for love.

William Shakespeare

#19. I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

Kandyse McClure

#20. Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.
Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed.
Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable.

William Shakespeare

#21. Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Ben Stein