The Two Gentlemen of Verona Quotes

“They do not love that do not show their love.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Banish'd from [those we love] Is self from self: a deadly banishment!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“To die, is to be banish'd from myself;
And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her,
Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?
What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?
Unless it be to think that she is by,
And feed upon the shadow of perfection.
Except I be by Silvia in the night,
There is no music in the nightingale;
Unless I look on Silvia in the day,
There is no day for me to look upon;
She is my essence, and I leave to be,
If I be not by her fair influence
Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by and by a cloud takes all away!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“At first I did adore a twinkling star
But now I worship a celestial sun”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“You, minion, are too saucy.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping. All the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I have received my proportion, like the prodigious son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog. A Jew would have wept to have seen our parting. Why, my grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This shoe is my father. No, this left shoe is my father. No, no, this left shoe is my mother. Nay, that cannot be so neither. Yes, it is so, it is so -- it hath the worser sole. This shoe with the hole in it is my mother, and this my father. A vengeance on't! There 'tis. Now, sir, this staff is my sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and as small as a wand. This hat is Nan, our maid. I am the dog. No, the dog is himself, and I am the dog -- O, the dog is me, and I am myself. Ay, so, so. Now come I to my father: 'Father, your blessing.' Now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping. Now should I kiss my father -- well, he weeps on. Now come I to my mother. O, that she could speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her -- why, there 'tis: here's my mother's breath up and down. Now come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a word!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“If you love her, you cannot see her.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“What, gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do. It cannot speak,
For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it." (2.2.17-19)”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!
My master sues to her, and she hath taught her suitor,
He being her pupil, to become her tutor.
O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,
That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter?
Valentine. How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?
Speed. Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that
And manage it against despairing thoughts.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Didst thou but know the inly touch of love
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. (2.7.18-20)”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.

SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Wilt thou reach stars because they shine on thee?”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Thou art a votary to fond desire”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Come, shadow, come, and take this shadow up,
For 'tis thy rival.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“A man is never undone till he be hang'd.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“I see things too, although you judge I wink.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Love is your master, for he masters you;
And he that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Hep şunu düşünürüm: Bir adam asılmadıkça sıfırı tüketmiş sayılmaz, ne de birkaç kadeh atılmadan ve meyhaneci kadın hoş geldiniz demezse hoş gelinmiş sayılmaz.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“O time most accurst!
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Experience is by industry achiev'd,
And perfected by the swift course of time.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st
Have some malignant power upon my life:
If so, I pray thee breathe it in mine ear,
As ending anthem of my endless dolour.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words, and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona

“If you love her, you cannot see her […] Because love is blind.”
― William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona